The Construction of Stereotypes within Social Psychology: From Social Cognition to Ideology

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 629-652

  Augoustinos, Martha ^a   Walker, Iain ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; ideology; realism; self categorization theory; social cognition; social representations theory; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032339163     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354398085003     Document Type: Article

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