Inoculation and mental processing: The instrumental role of associative networks in the process of resistance to counterattitudinal influence

Communication Monographs

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 414-441

  Pfau, Michael ^a   Ivanov, Bobi ^a   Houston, Brian ^a   Haigh, Michel ^a   Sims, Jeanetta ^a   Gilchrist, Eileen ^a   Russell, Jason ^a   Wigley, Shelley ^a   Eckstein, Jackie ^a   Richert, Natalie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative Networks; Inoculation; Resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 28244475383     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637750500322578     Document Type: Article

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