The primacy of communion over agency and its reversals in evaluations

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1139-1147

  Wojciszke, Bogdan ^a   Abele, Andrea E ^b  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 57149128350     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.549     Document Type: Article

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