Toward an integration of cognitive and motivational perspectives on social inference: A biased hypothesis-testing model

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 20, Issue C, 1987, Pages 297-340

  Pyszczynski, Tom ^a   Greenberg, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 77957039954     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60417-7     Document Type: Article

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