Group inclusiveness, group identification, and intergroup attributional bias

Psychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 278-290

  Ma, Weijun ^a,c   Karasawa, Minoru ^b  

^a NOVA Group   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Nagoya University ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Attribution bias; Causal attribution; Group identification; Self categorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250891416     PISSN: 00332852     EISSN: 13475916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2117/psysoc.2006.278     Document Type: Article

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