Looking through the eyes of the powerful

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1229-1238

  Lammers, Joris ^a   Gordijn, Ernestine H ^b   Otten, Sabine ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Intergroup relations; Metastereotype; Perception; Perspective taking; Power; Stereotype

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749109283     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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