Self-Esteem

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 479-498

  Tesser, Abraham ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Emotions; Evaluative judgments; Idiosyncratic interpretation; Semantics; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748268317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998519.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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