Evaluations, attitude similarity, and interpersonal attraction: Testing the hypothesis of weighting interference across responses

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 241-252

  Singh, Ramadhar ^a   Lin, Patrick K F ^b   Tan, Hui Lynn ^a   Ho, Li Jen ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 52949123174     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973530802375052     Document Type: Article

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