Stigma salience and paranoid social cognition: Understanding variability in metaperceptions among individuals with recently-acquired stigma

Social Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 171-197

  Santuzzi, Alecia M ^a   Ruscher, Janet B ^a  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

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EID: 0036049074     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.20.3.171.21105     Document Type: Article

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