Omega approaches to persuasion: Overcoming resistance

The Science of Social Influence: Advances and Future Progress

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 83-114

  Knowles, Eric S ^a   Riner, Dan D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

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