You spy with your little eye: People are "blind" to some of the ways in which they are consensually seen by others

Journal of Research in Personality

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 464-471

  Gallrein, Anne Marie B ^a   Carlson, Erika N ^b   Holstein, Martin ^c   Leising, Daniel ^a  

^a Washington University ^*

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Inter rater agreement; Interpersonal perception; Johari Window; Profile analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878785470     PISSN: 00926566     EISSN: 10957251     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jrp.2013.04.001     Document Type: Article

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