How the Mind Moves: Knowledge Accessibility and the Fine-tuning of the Cognitive System

Blackwell Handbook of Social Psychology: Intraindividual Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 236-256

  Martin, Leonard L ^a   Strack, Fritz ^a   Stapel, Diederik A ^a  

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Author keywords

Behavioral information; Cognitive system; Knowledge structures; Social cognition; Social judgments

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954616006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470998519.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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