Return of the Ego - Self-Referent Information as a Filter for Social Prediction: Comment on Karniol (2003)

Psychological Review

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 585-590

  Krueger, Joachim I ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGO; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; KNOWLEDGE; NOTE; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EGO; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; KNOWLEDGE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RESEARCH; SELF PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0043267440     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.110.3.585     Document Type: Review

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