Agency and communion in spontaneous self-descriptions: Occurrence and situational malleability

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1093-1102

  Uchronski, Mirjam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 57149132685     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.563     Document Type: Article

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