It's not just what you say but when you say it: Self-presentation and temporal construal

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1339-1345

  Carter, Seth E ^a   Sanna, Lawrence J ^b,c  

^a HIGH POINT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal level theory; Impression management; Self presentation strategies; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749131978     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.03.017     Document Type: Article

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