Hierarchies and minority groups: The roles of salience, overlap, and background knowledge in selecting meaningful social categorizations from multiple alternatives

Multiple Social Categorization: Processes, Models, and Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 25-49

  McGarty, Craig ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 34247380292     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203969229     Document Type: Chapter

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