Speculations on a Privileged State of Cognitive Dissonance
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Speculations on a Privileged State of Cognitive Dissonance
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0021-8308,1468-5914
DOI: 10.1111/1468-5914.00151