The Construction of Attitudes

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 436-457

  Schwarz, Norbert ^a   Bohner, Gerd ^a  

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Author keywords

Attitudes; Behavioral components; Knowledge structure; Probability; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954607210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998519.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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