Prejudice as Self-Image Maintenance: Affirming the Self Through Derogating Others

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 31-44

  Fein, Steven ^b   Spencer, Steven J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 0031510164     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.73.1.31     Document Type: Article

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