Young adult's stereotypes of older adults with their grandparents as the targets

Journal of Communication

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 715-730

  Pecchioni, Loretta L ^a   Croghan, Jon M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSFER; TARGETING;

EID: 0036962564     PISSN: 00219916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/joc/52.4.715     Document Type: Article

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