Extraversion as a moderator of the cognitive dissonance associated with disagreement

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 401-405

  Matz, David C ^a   Hofstedt, Petra M ^b   Wood, Wendy ^c  

^a AUGSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Cognitive dissonance; Conflict; Extraversion; Groups; Individual differences; Introversion; Personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 47049101092     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2008.05.014     Document Type: Article

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