Counter-attitudinal advocacy: Effort vs. self-generation of arguments

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2001, Pages

  Miller, Richard L ^a,b,c,d   Wozniak, William ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT KEARNEY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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