Could you mind your language?: An investigation of communicators' ability to inhibit linguistic bias

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 123-139

  Douglas, Karen M ^a   Sutton, Robbie M ^a   Wilkin, Katie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inhibition; Linguistic category model; Linguistic intergroup bias; Motivation; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 42949087414     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X07313655     Document Type: Article

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