The effects of judge-target gender and ethnicity similarity on the accuracy of personality judgments

Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 42-51

  Letzring, Tera D ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Gender; Judgmental accuracy; Personality judgment; Similarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 75249091776     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000007     Document Type: Article

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