Competing roles for the subfactors of need for closure in moderating dissonance-produced attitude change

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 775-778

  Stalder, Daniel R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Decisiveness; Dissonance; External justification; Need for closure; Need for structure; Trivialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77349116129     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.01.028     Document Type: Article

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