Inferring the importance of arguments: Order effects and conversational rules

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 91-99

  Igou, Eric R ^a   Bless, Herbert ^b  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Conversational rules; Order effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037273288     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1031(02)00509-7     Document Type: Article

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