The effect of distance-dependent construals on schema-driven impression formation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 278-281

  Eyal, Tal ^a   Hoover, Gina M ^b   Fujita, Kentaro ^b   Nussbaum, Shiri ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Construal level; Impression formation; Primacy effect; Schematic processing; Temporal distance; Trait aggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650015511     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.10.007     Document Type: Article

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