The perceiver as perceived: Everyday intuitions about the correspondence bias

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1188-1199

  Van Boven, Leaf ^b   Kamada, Akiko ^a   Gilovich, Thomas ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0033273139     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1188     Document Type: Article

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