The social impact of pathogen threat: How disease salience influences conformity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 50-54

  Wu, Bao Pei ^a   Chang, Lei ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Conformity; Pathogen threat; Social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859906741     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2012.02.023     Document Type: Article

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