Does attitude certainty beget self-certainty?

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 436-439

  Clarkson, Joshua J ^a   Tormala, Zakary L ^b   DeSensi, Victoria L ^a   Christian Wheeler, S ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Certainty; Self; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049097895     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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