Motivated language use in intergroup contexts: Need-for-closure effects on the linguistic intergroup bias

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1122-1131

  Webster, Donna M ^a   Kruglanski, Arie W ^b   Pattison, Dwight A ^c  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTIVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031135160     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.72.5.1122     Document Type: Article

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