How Are Personality Judgments Made? A Cognitive Model of Reference Group Effects, Personality Scale Responses, and Behavioral Reactions

Journal of Personality

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1275-1311

  Wood, Alex M ^a   Brown, Gordon D A ^b   Maltby, John ^c   Watkinson, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFERENCE VALUE; REINFORCEMENT; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGED; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERSONALITY; QUESTIONNAIRES; REFERENCE VALUES; REINFORCEMENT, VERBAL; SELF EFFICACY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866754323     PISSN: 00223506     EISSN: 14676494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2012.00763.x     Document Type: Article

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