Distinctness of others, mutability of selves: Their impact on self-evaluations

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1068-1087

  Stapel, Diederik A ^a,b   Koomen, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; FEEDBACK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034575921     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.79.6.1068     Document Type: Article

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