Contextualizing Person Perception: Distributed Social Cognition

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 343-364

  Smith, Eliot R ^a   Collins, Elizabeth C ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gossip; multiagent; person perception; social networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COGNITION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 65349084289     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015072     Document Type: Article

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