Gender and psychological essentialism

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Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-310

  Heyman, Gail D ^a   Giles, Jessica W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Belief; Essentialism; Gender

Indexed keywords

EID: 51449115171     PISSN: 00137545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/enf.583.0293     Document Type: Article

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