Getting out of Hot Water: Facework in Social Predicaments

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 300-314

  Hodgins, Holley S ^a   Liebeskind, Elizabeth ^a   Schwartz, Warren ^a  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0030511154     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.2.300     Document Type: Article

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