Allport's "Living Inkblots": The Role of Defensive Projection in Stereotyping and Prejudice

On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years after Allport

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 377-392

  Newman, Leonard S ^a   Caldwell, Tracy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergroup bias; Outgroups; Prejudice; Projection; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646402528     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773963.ch23     Document Type: Chapter

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