Interaction goals and social information processing: Underestimating one's partners but overestimating one's opponents

Social Cognition

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 409-439

  Chan, Emily ^a   Ybarra, Oscar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0036993364     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.20.5.409.21126     Document Type: Article

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