A recurrent connectionist model of group biases

Psychological Review

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 536-563

  Van Rooy, Dirk ^a   Van Overwalle, Frank ^a   Vanhoomissen, Tim ^a   Labiouse, Christophe ^b   French, Robert ^b  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0042264969     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.110.3.536     Document Type: Review

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