Individual differences in using epistemic and teleologic strategies for deliberate self-persuasion

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 615-620

  Resch, Heather L ^a   Lord, Charles G ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Need for cognition; Self control; Self persuasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551593082     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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