How passive 'face time' affects perceptions of employees: Evidence of spontaneous trait inference

Human Relations

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 735-760

  Elsbach, Kimberly D ^a   Cable, Dan M ^b   Sherman, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Face time; Performance appraisal; Person perception; Trait inferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953155099     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726709353139     Document Type: Article

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