Attributional biases in the service of stereotype maintenance: A schema-maintenance through compensation analysis

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 151-163

  Seta, John J ^a   Seta, Catherine E ^b   McElroy, Todd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributions; Inconsistent actions; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 0037259644     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167202239040     Document Type: Article

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