Culture and Group Perception: Dispositional and Stereotypic Inferences About Novel and National Groups

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 525-543

  Spencer Rodgers, Julie ^a   Williams, Melissa J ^b   Hamilton, David L ^c   Peng, Kaiping ^b   Wang, Lei ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese cultural groups; cross cultural differences; dispositional inference; entitativity; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARACTER; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; CHARACTER; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35448942710     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.93.4.525     Document Type: Article

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