Effects of accessibility and subjective relevance on the use of piecemeal and category information in impression formation

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 692-705

  Kpetz, Catalina ^a   Kruglanski, Arie W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Category; Impression formation; Relevance; Traits

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHARACTER; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTIVE THRESHOLD; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFFECT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CAREER CHOICE; CHARACTER; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; STEREOTYPING; SUBLIMINAL STIMULATION;

EID: 42149127617     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167207313730     Document Type: Article

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