The Consequences of Mood on the Processing of Social Information

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 391-412

  Bless, Herbert ^a  

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Information processing; Politics; Psychological thinking; Social cognition; Social information

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EID: 84954615467     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998519.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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