The Construction of attitudinal judgments: Evidence from attitude certainty and response latency

Social Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 577-611

  Koriat, Asher ^a   Adiv, Shiri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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EID: 80052711745     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2011.29.5.577     Document Type: Article

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