Target complicity in the confirmation and disconfirmation of erroneous perceiver expectations: Immediate and longer term implications

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 974-991

  Smith, Dylan M ^a   Neuberg, Steven L ^a   Judice, T Nicole ^a   Biesanz, Jeremy C ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROL; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF CONCEPT; STUDENT;

ADULT; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERSONNEL SELECTION; SELF CONCEPT; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 0031278399     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.73.5.974     Document Type: Article

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