Constructive Biases in Social Judgment: Experiments on the Self-Verification of Question Contents

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 861-873

  Fiedler, Klaus ^a   Nickel, Stefanie ^a   Walther, Eva ^a   Armbruster, Thomas ^b   Asbeck, Judith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PREJUDICE; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030280018     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.5.861     Document Type: Article

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