Narratives and goals: Narrative structure increases goal priming

Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 303-310

  Laham, Simon M ^a   Kashima, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Goal priming; Narrative; Scrambled Narrative Task; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886026232     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000116     Document Type: Article

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