Seeking the opinions of others online: Evidence of evaluation overshoot

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1033-1042

  Coker, Brent L S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitude formation; Internet social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864753364     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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