Self-Evaluation: To Thine Own Self Be Good, To Thine Own Self Be Sure, To Thine Own Self Be True, and To Thine Own Self be Better

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 29, Issue C, 1997, Pages 209-269

  Sedikides, Constantine ^a   Strube, Michael J ^a  

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EID: 77956783490     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60018-0     Document Type: Article

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