Altering intergroup perceptions by altering prevailing mode of cognitive representation: "They look like people"

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1333-1343

  Mullen, Brian ^a   Pizzuto, Carmen ^b   Foels, Rob ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0040669966     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.6.1333     Document Type: Article

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