Toward a Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model of Social Behavior

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 21, Issue C, 1988, Pages 181-227

  Tesser, Abraham ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

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EID: 77957024810     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60227-0     Document Type: Article

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