Converting verbs into adjectives: Asymmetrical memory distortions for stereotypic and counterstereotypic information

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 8, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 271-290

  Maass, Anne ^a   Cadinu, Mara ^a   Boni, Marta ^a   Borini, Cristiana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deduction; False memories; Induction; Inferences; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 28444444937     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430205053943     Document Type: Article

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