The Referents of Trait Inferences: The Impact of Trait Concepts Versus Actor-Trait Links on Subsequent Judgments

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 437-450

  Stapel, Diederik A ^a   Koomen, Willem ^a   Van Der Pligt, Joop ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0030559656     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.70.3.437     Document Type: Article

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