My friends are all alike - the relation between liking and perceived similarity in person perception

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2016, Pages 103-117

  Alves, Hans ^a   Koch, Alex ^a   Unkelbach, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Impression formation; Law of effect; Person perception; Valence asymmetries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84946600465     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2015.10.011     Document Type: Article

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