Telling what they want to know: Participants tailor causal attributions to researchers' interests

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1011-1020

  Norenzayan, Ara ^a   Schwarz, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033248402     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0992(199912)29:8<1011::AID-EJSP974>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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