Evil Acts and Malicious Gossip: A Multiagent Model of the Effects of Gossip in Socially Distributed Person Perception

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 311-325

  Smith, Eliot R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; gossip; multiagent modeling; person perception

Indexed keywords

COOPERATION; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

COMMUNICATION; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84908504682     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: 15327957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1088868314530515     Document Type: Article

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