Effects of arbitrarily placed category boundaries on similarity judgments

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 122-145

  Rothbart, Myron ^a   Davis Stitt, Carene ^b   Hill, Jonathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0031081944     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jesp.1996.1315     Document Type: Article

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