The agony of ambivalence and ways to resolve it: Introducing the MAID model

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 45-61

  Van Harreveld, Frenk ^a   Van Der Pligt, Joop ^a   De Liver, Yael N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ambivalence; Attitudes; Decision making; Dissonance; Judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449097346     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868308324518     Document Type: Article

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