Overlapping mental representations of self, ingroup, and outgroup: Unraveling self-stereotyping and self-anchoring

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 957-969

  Otten, Sabine ^a,d   Epstude, Kai ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intergroup differentiation; Mental representations; Self anchoring; Self stereotyping; Social identity; Social projection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 33744788096     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167206287254     Document Type: Article

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