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Assimilation and Contrast in Spontaneous Comparisons: Heterogeneous Effects of Standard Extremity in Facial Evaluations

International Review of Social Psychology
Volume 33 (2020): Issue 1
By: Paul Barker,  Ron Dotsch and  Roland Imhoff  
Open Access
|Jun 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/irsp.402 | Journal eISSN: 2397-8570
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Language: English
Submitted on: Jan 27, 2020
Accepted on: Mar 9, 2020
Published on: Jun 9, 2020
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Social Comparison,
Assimilation,
Contrast,
Facial Evaluation

© 2020 Paul Barker, Ron Dotsch, Roland Imhoff, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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