Seeing others through rose-colored glasses: An affiliation goal and positivity bias in implicit trait impressions

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1204-1209

  Rim, SoYon ^a   Min, Kate E ^b   Uleman, James S ^c   Chartrand, Tanya L ^d   Carlston, Donal E ^e  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Affiliation motivation; Attribution; Impression formation; Social cognition; Social perception; Spontaneous trait inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884712787     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.05.007     Document Type: Article

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