Individual differences in motivated social cognition: The case of self-serving information processing

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1347-1357

  Von Hippel, William ^a   Lakin, Jessica L ^b   Shakarchi, Richard J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b DREW UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cheating; Motivated social cognition; Self deception; Self serving bias

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; RECUMBENCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT;

COGNITION; DECEPTION; HUMANS; MOTIVATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 26444578348     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205274899     Document Type: Review

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