Personality judgment at zero acquaintance: Agreement, assumed similarity, and implicit simplicity

Journal of Personality Assessment

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 250-260

  Beer, Andrew ^a   Watson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY TEST; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 42249104521     PISSN: 00223891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00223890701884970     Document Type: Article

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