Biased language use in stereotype maintenance: The role of encoding and goals

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 504-516

  Wenneker, Clemens P J ^a   Wigboldus, Daniël H J ^b   Spears, Russell ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Communication; LEB; LIB; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; GOALS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 27944448127     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.89.4.504     Document Type: Article

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