Cultural dynamics of stereotyping: Interpersonal communication may inadvertently help maintaining auto-stereotypes too

Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive

Volumn 22, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 445-461

  Kashima, Yoshihisa ^a   Kostopoulos, Jenny ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cultural dynamics; Serial reproduction; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144461895     PISSN: 02499185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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