Cognition in persuasion: An analysis of information processing in response to persuasive communications

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue , 2002, Pages 61-130

  Albarracín, Dolores ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2601(02)80004-1     Document Type: Article

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