The malleable influence of social consensus on attitude certainty

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1019-1022

  Clarkson, Joshua J ^a   Tormala, Zakary L ^b   Rucker, Derek D ^c   Dugan, Riley G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude certainty; Optimal distinctiveness; Social consensus; Social influence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881249796     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.07.001     Document Type: Article

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