A slice of hygiene: justification and consequence in the persuasiveness of prescriptive and proscriptive signs

Social Influence

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 271-283

  Leoniak, Krzysztof Jan ^a   Maj, Konrad ^a  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

consequence; justification; norms; persuasion; Sign

Indexed keywords

EID: 85010042089     PISSN: 15534510     EISSN: 15534529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2016.1267663     Document Type: Article

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