Judging the unexpected: Disconfirmation of situation-specific expectancies

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 944-956

  Noordewier, Marret K ^a   Stapel, Diederik A ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 73049106851     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.591     Document Type: Article

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