Source Credibility and Persuasion: The Role of Message Position in Self-Validation

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 1024-1036

  Clark, Jason K ^a   Evans, Abigail T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

message position; metacognition; persuasion; self validation; source credibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904175168     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214534733     Document Type: Article

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