Attributions in Close Relationships: From Balkanization to Integration

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-31

  Fincham, Frank D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Balkanization; Relationships; Social cognition; Social psychology; Social psychological research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904126303     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998557.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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