A mile in moccasins: How situational experience diminishes dispositionism in social inference

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 102-114

  Balcetis, Emily ^a   Dunning, David A ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Correspondence bias; Dispositionism; Self assessment; Self enhancement

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTUITION; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY;

HUMANS; INTUITION; NEW YORK; OHIO; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SELF ASSESSMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNIVERSITIES;

EID: 36949031281     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207309201     Document Type: Article

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