Language: A Toolbox for Sharing and Influencing Social Reality

Perspectives on Psychological Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 38-47

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

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EID: 84993741932     PISSN: 17456916     EISSN: 17456924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6916.2008.00060.x     Document Type: Article

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