Driving European identification through discourse: Do nationals feel more European when told they are all similar?

Psychologica Belgica

Volumn 43, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 85-102

  Licata, Laurent ^a   Klein, Olivier ^a   Casini, Annalisa ^a   Coscenza, Alessandra ^a   Azzi, Assaad E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

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