Panglossian Ideology In The Service Of System Justification: How Complementary Stereotypes Help Us To Rationalize Inequality

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue , 2007, Pages 305-358

  Kay, Aaron C ^a   Jost, John T ^a   Mandisodza, Anesu N ^a   Sherman, Steven J ^a   Petrocelli, John V ^a   Johnson, Amy L ^a  

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EID: 34247279366     PISSN: 00652601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2601(06)39006-5     Document Type: Review

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