Does it only depend on the point of view? Perspective-related differences in justice evaluations of negative incidents in personal relationships

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 931-962

  Mikula, Gerold ^a   Athenstaedt, Ursula ^b   Heschgl, Sabine ^b   Heimgartner, Arno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032327127     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(1998110)28:6<931::AID-EJSP904>3.0.CO;2-5     Document Type: Article

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