The impact of the social context on resistance to persuasion: Effortful versus effortless responses to counter-attitudinal information

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 640-649

  Levitan, Lindsey Clark ^a   Visser, Penny S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Social context; Social network

Indexed keywords

EID: 41549156118     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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