Minority influence is facilitated when the communication employs linguistic abstractness

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 443-451

  Sigall, Harold ^a   Mucchi Faina, Angelica ^b   Mosso, Cristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Indirect influence; Linguistic abstraction; Minority influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745247754     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430206064644     Document Type: Article

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