Creeping Dispositionism: The Temporal Dynamics of Behavior Prediction

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 485-497

  Nussbaum, Shiri ^a   Trope, Yaacov ^b   Liberman, Nira ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; ISRAEL; MALE; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85047690265     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.84.3.485     Document Type: Article

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