The moderating role of category salience and category focus in judgments of set size and frequency of occurrence

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 463-481

  Betsch, Tilmann ^a   Siebler, Frank ^b   Marz, Peter ^b   Hormuth, Stefan ^b   Dickenberger, Dorothee ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033240612     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167299025004006     Document Type: Article

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