Linguistic Biases and Persuasion in Communication About Objects

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 291-310

  Schellekens, Gaby A C ^a   Verlegh, Peeter W J ^b   Smidts, Ale ^c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

attribution biases; experimentation; linguistic category model; linguistic intergroup bias; persuasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881598544     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X12466083     Document Type: Article

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