Attitude heritability, attitude change and physiological responsivity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 89-96

  Tesser, Abraham ^a   Whitaker, Dan ^a   Martin, Leonard ^a   Ward, David ^a  

^a University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Attitude heritability; Physiological responsivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031609119     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(97)00137-2     Document Type: Article

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