Gender stereotypes as situation-behavior profiles

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 971-982

  Mendoza Denton, Rodolfo ^a   Park, Sang Hee ^a   O'Connor, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender; Impression formation; Situation behavior profiles; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 44549083992     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.02.010     Document Type: Article

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