Effects of power on social perception: All your boss can see is agency

Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-146

  Cislak, Aleksandra ^a  

^a SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agency; Communion; Power; Social perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876518711     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000139     Document Type: Conference Paper

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