You're getting warmer: Level of construal affects the impact of central traits on impression formation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1304-1307

  McCarthy, Randy J ^a   Skowronski, John J ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Construal Level Theory; Impression formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051912666     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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