Limiting the spread of spontaneous trait transference

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 466-472

  Crawford, Matthew T ^a   Skowronski, John J ^b   Stiff, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Associative processes; Impression formation; Spontaneous trait inferences; Spontaneous trait transference; Traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947727863     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2006.04.003     Document Type: Article

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