Accurate when it counts: Perceiving power and status in social groups

Managing Interpersonal Sensitivity: Knowing When - and When Not - To Understand Others

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 41-58

  Srivastava, Sanjay ^a   Anderson, Cameron ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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