Minority status decreases sense of control and increases interpretive processing

Social Cognition

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-186

  Guinote, Ana ^a   Brown, Megan ^b   Fiske, Susan T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33646470050     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: 0278016X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2006.24.2.169     Document Type: Article

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