Close encounters of the initial kind: Implicit self-esteem, name-letter similarity, and social distance

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-23

  Kocan, Sylvia E ^a   Curtis, Guy J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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EID: 61449179452     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973530802659752     Document Type: Article

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