Individual differences in the spontaneous construal of behavior: Idiocentrism and the automatization of the trait inference process

Social Cognition

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 217-241

  Duff, Kimberley J ^a   Newman, Leonard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 0007174279     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.1997.15.3.217     Document Type: Article

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