When power does not corrupt: Superior individuation processes among powerful perceivers

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 549-564

  Overbeck, Jennifer R ^a   Park, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MALE; PERCEPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUATION; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); QUESTIONNAIRES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035487142     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037//0022-3514.81.4.549     Document Type: Article

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