Why listeners hear less than they are told: Attentional load and the teller-listener extremity effect

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 826-838

  Baron, Robert S ^a,c   David, James P ^a   Brunsman, Bethany M ^a   Inman, Mary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c E11 SSH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LEARNING; MALE; RECALL; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031116078     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.4.826     Document Type: Article

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