Information processing approaches to persuasion: Integrating assumptions from the dual- and single-processing perspectives

Attitudes and Attitude Change

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 161-188

  Bohner, Gerd ^a   Erb, Hans Peter ^b   Siebler, Frank ^c  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HELMUT SCHMIDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203838068     Document Type: Chapter

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