Psychological-State Theories About Significant Others: Implications for the Content and Structure of Significant-Other Representations

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1285-1302

  Chen, Serena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

If Then relations; Mental representation; Significant others; Theories

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141431015     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167203255226     Document Type: Article

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