Category accessibility and social perception: Some implications for the study of person memory and interpersonal judgments

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 1980, Pages 841-856

  Srull, Thomas K ^a   Wyer, Robert S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

trait category accessibility through priming, subsequent attribution of trait to target person, college students

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845498765     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.38.6.841     Document Type: Article

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