Dynamics of Sex-Role Stereotypes

Stereotype Dynamics: Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 135-161

  Sczesny, Sabine ^a   Bosak, Janine ^a   Diekman, Amanda B ^b   Twenge, Jean M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809990-14     Document Type: Chapter

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