Metaphors as symbolic environment of the self: How self-knowledge is expressed verbally

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 151-178

  Moser, Karin S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

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