The impact of perceiver attitudes on outcome-biased dispositional inferences

Social Cognition

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 71-93

  Mackie, Diane M ^a   Ahn, Mi Na ^b   Asuncion, Arlene G ^b   Allison, Scott T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California ^*

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EID: 0035532380     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.19.1.71.18960     Document Type: Article

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