Do people know how they behave? Self-reported act frequencies compared with on-line codings by observers

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1337-1349

  Gosling, Samuel D ^a   John, Oliver P ^a   Craik, Kenneth H ^a   Robins, Richard W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NARCISSISM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NARCISSISM; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0032066458     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.74.5.1337     Document Type: Article

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