Construal Processes and Trait Ambiguity: Implications for Self-Peer Agreement in Personality Judgment

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 664-677

  Hayes, Andrew F ^a   Dunning, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

EID: 0031093840     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.3.664     Document Type: Article

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