Happy faces elicit heuristic processing in a televised impression formation task: A cognitive tuning account

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1144-1156

  Ottati, Victor ^a,d   Terkildsen, Nayda ^b   Hubbard, Clark ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0031492844     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/01461672972311003     Document Type: Article

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