Personality traits function as causal concepts

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 213-216

  Kressel, Laura M ^a   Uleman, James S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Person perception; Social cognition; Trait inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449678624     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.08.018     Document Type: Article

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