Stereotypes focus defensive projection

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 781-793

  Govorun, Olesya ^a,c   Fuegen, Kathleen ^a   Payne, B Keith ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Compensatory self enhancement; Projection; Self threat; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646433411     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167205285556     Document Type: Article

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