When Do Self-Schemas Shape Social Perception?: The Role of Descriptive Ambiguity

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-83

  Green, Jeffrey D ^a   Sedikides, Constantine ^b  

^a SOKA UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0035631236     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010611922816     Document Type: Article

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