Stereotypes: Static abstractions or dynamic knowledge structures?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 91, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 814-831

  Garcia Marques, Leonel ^a   Santos, A Sofia C ^a   MacKie, Diane M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Context sensitivity; Malleability of knowledge structures; Social categorization; Static abstraction; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTUGAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PORTUGAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; STUDENTS;

EID: 33750358766     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.91.5.814     Document Type: Article

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