How important is Kelley's model of the attribution process when men and women discuss rape in conversation?

Semiotica

Volumn 110, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 1-21

  Anderson, Irina ^a   Beattie, Geoffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0039431202     PISSN: 00371998     EISSN: 16133692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/semi.1996.110.1-2.1     Document Type: Article

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