Resisting stereotype change: The role of motivation and attentional capacity in defending social beliefs

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 5-16

  Moreno, Kristen N ^a   Bodenhausen, Galen V ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Stereotype change; Subtyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001884043     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430299021001     Document Type: Article

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