Negativity and extremity biases in impression formation: A review of explanations.
Psychological BulletinPublished 1 January 1989
John J. Skowronski, Donal E. Carlston
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Abstract
Mise au point sur les explications de certains biais lies aux recherches sur la formation des impressions, et presentation d'un modele fonde sur des indices de categorisation du stimulus pour rendre compte de tels biais
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