Influence of impression-management goals on the emerging contents of group stereotypes: Support for a social-evolutionary process

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 819-833

  Schaller, Mark ^a   Conway III, Lucian Gideon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033247456     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167299025007005     Document Type: Article

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