Arguing to agree: Mitigating my-side bias through consensus-seeking dialogue

Written Communication

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 317-331

  Felton, Mark ^a   Crowell, Amanda ^b   Liu, Tina ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Argumentative discourse; Persuasive writing; Reasoning bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943174133     PISSN: 07410883     EISSN: 15528472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0741088315590788     Document Type: Article

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