Complex social consequences of self-knowledge

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 343-350

  Tenney, Elizabeth R ^a   Spellman, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Impression formation; Person perception; Self presentation; Social influence; Social judgment

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051723553     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610390965     Document Type: Article

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