Attitudes in the social context: The impact of social network composition on individual-level attitude strength

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 779-795

  Visser, Penny S ^a   Mirabile, Robert R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPUTER; HUMAN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

ATTITUDE; COMPUTERS; HUMANS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 10244222312     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.87.6.779     Document Type: Article

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