Hold still while I measure your attitude: Assessment in the throes of ambivalence

Contemporary Perspectives on the Psychology of Attitudes

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 77-92

  Breckler, Steven J ^a  

^a AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203645031     Document Type: Chapter

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