The highs and lows of group homogeneity

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 42, Issue 2-3, 1998, Pages 219-238

  Castano, Emanuele ^a   Yzerbyt, Vincent Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Entitativity; Ethnocentrism; Group variability; Social identity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031801759     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(97)00078-8     Document Type: Article

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