Expectation states: Are formal words a status cue for competence?

Current Research in Social Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 50-63

  Nath, Leda E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

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