Contextual variability in young children's gender ingroup stereotype

Social Development

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 221-229

  Sani, Fabio ^a   Bennett, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Gender stereotype; Group perception; Self categorization theory; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040487020     PISSN: 0961205X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9507.00160     Document Type: Article

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