Social perception of self-enhancement bias and error

Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 327-339

  Heck, Patrick R ^a   Krueger, Joachim I ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Decision making; Error; Reputation; Self enhancement; Social judgment

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

EID: 85002199071     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000287     Document Type: Article

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