Conformity to implicit social pressure: the role of political identity

Social Influence

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 177-184

  Panagopoulos, Costas ^a   van der Linden, Sander ^b  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

eye images; field experiment; implicit social cues; Prosocial behavior; social norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981241215     PISSN: 15534510     EISSN: 15534529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2016.1216009     Document Type: Article

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