Social categorization and perceptual judgment of size: When perception is social

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1177-1190

  Stapel, Diederik A ^a   Koomen, Willem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; VISUAL ILLUSION;

ATTENTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; OPTICAL ILLUSIONS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 0031302543     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.73.6.1177     Document Type: Article

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