Competitive versus cooperative attitudes in crossed categorization effects: Testing the category dominance and equivalence models

Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-20

  Singh, Ramadhar ^a   Poh, Woon Ying ^a   Chang, Anthony P M ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Competition; Cooperation; Crossed categorization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 43849110920     PISSN: 00224545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/SOCP.148.1.5-21     Document Type: Article

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