Group communicators, perceived entitativity, and persuasion: A self-validation analysis

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 61, Issue , 2015, Pages 5-11

  Clark, Jason K ^a   Thiem, Kelsey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Entitativity; Metacognition; Persuasion; Self validation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84936872833     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.06.005     Document Type: Article

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