Stereotype Efficiency Reconsidered: Encoding Flexibility under Cognitive Load

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 589-606

  Sherman, Jeffrey W ^a   Lee, Angela Y ^b   Bessenoff, Gayle R ^b   Frost, Leigh A ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMAN; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032159224     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.75.3.589     Document Type: Article

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