Chapter Six: Mental construal and the emergence of assimilation and contrast effects: The inclusion/exclusion model

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue , 2010, Pages 319-373

  Bless, Herbert ^a   Schwarz, Norbert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 77953578643     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(10)42006-7     Document Type: Article

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