Preventing piracy use intention by rectifying self-positivity bias

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 961-974

  Lai, Mengkuan ^a   Kuo, Chung Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Attitude; Information accessibility; Message framing; Piracy; Self positivity bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 36248946162     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2007.35.7.961     Document Type: Article

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