On being influenced while trying to persuade: The feedback effect of persuasion outcomes on the persuader

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 51-58

  Prislin, Radmila ^a   Boyle, Shanelle M ^a   Davenport, Cory ^a   Farley, Ashley ^a   Jacobs, Elizabeth ^a   Michalak, John ^a   Uehara, Ken ^a   Zandian, Farsiar ^a   Xu, Yishan ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Majority; Minority; Persuasion; Social influence; Source

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051770690     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610377238     Document Type: Article

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