Social comparisons by procrastinators: Rating peers with similar or dissimilar delay tendencies

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1493-1501

  Ferrari, Joseph R ^a   Patel, Tina ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Avoidance tendencies; Chronic procrastination; In out group favoritism; Interpersonal attraction; Peer ratings; Social comparisons

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944239555     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2004.02.006     Document Type: Article

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