Early communications in the war against terrorism: An integrative complexity analysis

Political Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 585-599

  Suedfeld, Peter ^a   Leighton, Dana C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Communications; Complexity; Leaders

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036757168     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0162-895X.00299     Document Type: Article

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