(Why) Do I Think What You Think? Epistemic Social Tuning and Implicit Prejudice

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 957-972

  Lun, Janetta ^a   Sinclair, Stacey ^a   Whitchurch, Erin R ^a   Glenn, Catherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

epistemic motivation; implicit prejudice; shared reality; social tuning; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 38049001488     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.93.6.957     Document Type: Article

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