Looking for Truth in All the Wrong Places? Asymmetric Search of Individuating Information about Stereotyped Group Members

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 229-241

  Trope, Yaacov ^b   Thompson, Erik P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY TEST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INDIVIDUATION; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0031201132     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.73.2.229     Document Type: Article

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