"If you know he is an engineer, i don't need to tell you he is smart": The influence of stereotypes on the communication of social knowledge

Cahiers de Psychologie Cognitive

Volumn 22, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 463-478

  Klein, Olivier ^a   Demoulin, Stéphanie ^b   Licata, Laurent ^a   Lambert, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Audience; Communication; Impression; Pragmatics; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 31144462329     PISSN: 02499185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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