Guilty by mere similarity: Assimilative effects of facial resemblance on automatic evaluation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 120-125

  Gawronski, Bertram ^a   Quinn, Kimberly A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assimilation; Automatic evaluation; Face perception; Fluency; Impression formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867555578     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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