Recategorization and crossed categorization: The implications of group salience and representations for reducing bias

Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 65-89

  Dovidio, John F ^a   Gaertner, Samuel L ^b   Hodson, Gordon ^c   Riek, Blake M ^b   Johnson, Kelly M ^b   Houlette, Missy ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c BROCK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d College of Mount St Joseph Department of Business Administration/Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203969229     Document Type: Chapter

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