Affordances in social judgment: Experimental proof of why it is a mistake to ignore how others behave towards a target and look solely at how the target behaves

Swiss Journal of Psychology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 16-33

  Beauvois, Jean Léon ^a   Dubois, Nicole ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Affordance; Behavior of others towards a target (OB); Evaluative knowledge; Social judgment; Trait

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034345261     PISSN: 14210185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1024//1421-0185.59.1.16     Document Type: Article

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