One for All: Social Power Increases Self-Anchoring of Traits, Attitudes, and Emotions

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1466-1476

  Overbeck, Jennifer R ^a   Droutman, Vitaliya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

social cognition; social perception; social structure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTION; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ATTITUDE; EMOTIONS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROJECTION; REACTION TIME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84881228817     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612474671     Document Type: Article

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