Unconscious thought works bottom-up and conscious thought works top-down when forming an impression

Social Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 727-737

  Bos, Maarten W ^a   Dijksterhuis, A P ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 82955174748     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2011.29.6.727     Document Type: Article

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