To think or not to think: The moderating role of need for cognition in expectancy-consistent impression formation

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1657-1667

  Dudley, Michael G ^a   Harris, Monica J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive busyness; Expectancies; Impression formation; Need for cognition; Perceptual confirmation; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141576555     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00388-4     Document Type: Article

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