How Social Representations of Attitudes Have Informed Attitude Theories: The Consensual and the Reified

Theory & Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 691-714

  Howarth, Caroline ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attitudes; history of social psychology; individualism; racism; social representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845333002     PISSN: 09593543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959354306067443     Document Type: Article

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