Outcome Biases in Social Perception: Implications for Dispositional Inference, Attitude Change, Stereotyping, and Social Behavior

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 28, Issue C, 1996, Pages 53-93

  Allison, Scott T ^a   Mackie, Diane M ^a   Messick, David M ^a  

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EID: 77956752913     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(08)60236-1     Document Type: Article

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