On the Motives Underlying Social Cognition

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 348-374

  Dunning, David ^a  

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Cognitive processes; Social cognition; Social judgment; Social psychology; Social worlds

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EID: 84954573043     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998519.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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