The impact of affective and cognitive focus on attitude formation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 373-379

  van den Berg, Helma ^a   Manstead, Antony S R ^a,c   van der Pligt, Joop ^a   Wigboldus, Daniël H J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Affect; Attitude formation; Attitudes; Cognition; Focus; Memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645947363     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.04.009     Document Type: Article

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