Status, Communality, and Agency: Implications for Stereotypes of Gender and Other Groups

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-38

  Conway, Michael ^a   Pizzamiglio, M Teresa ^a   Mount, Lauren ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONS; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0030191772     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.71.1.25     Document Type: Article

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