Similarities and Differences between the Impact of Traits and Expectancies: What Matters Is Whether the Target Stimulus Is Ambiguous or Mixed

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 227-245

  Stapel, Diederik A ^b   Schwarz, Norbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0032374982     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jesp.1997.9997     Document Type: Article

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