Self-focused attention, perspective-taking, and false consensus

Social Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 66-72

  Gendolla, Guido H E ^a   Wicklund, Robert A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Egocentrism; Perspective taking; Self focus

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649516296     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335.40.2.66     Document Type: Article

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