Lay personality knowledge and dispositionist thinking: A knowledge-activation framework

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 177-191

  Poon, Connie S K ^a   Koehler, Derek J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dispositional inferences; Knowledge activation; Lay theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044437630     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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