The role of uncertainty in self-evaluative processes: Another look at the cognitive-affective crossfire

Handbook of the Uncertain Self

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 216-231

  Chang Schneider, Christine ^a   Swann, William B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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