Separating status from power as an antecedent of intergroup perception

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 377-400

  Boldry, Jennifer G ^a   Gaertner, Lowell ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Group perception; Group variability; Heterogeneity; Homogeneity; In group homogeneity; Ingroup homogeneity; Intergroup perception; Out group homogeneity; Outgroup homogeneity; Power; Status

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745232342     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430206064640     Document Type: Article

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