Flexibility and Consistency in Evaluative Responding. The Function of Construal Level

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue C, 2010, Pages 257-295

  Ledgerwood, Alison ^a   Trope, Yaacov ^b   Liberman, Nira ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 77954111909     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(10)43006-3     Document Type: Chapter

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