Anxiety and intergroup bias: Terror management or coalitional psychology?

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 370-397

  Navarrete, C David ^a   Kurzban, Robert ^a,b   Fessler, Daniel M T ^a   Kirkpatrick, Lee A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Evolutionary psychology; Ideology; Ingroup; Interdependence; Outgroup; Self esteem; Terror management

Indexed keywords

EID: 17844386490     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430204046144     Document Type: Article

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