The impact of loyalty and equality on implicit ingroup favoritism

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-512

  Zogmaister, Cristina ^a   Arcuri, Luciano ^a   Castelli, Luigi ^a   Smith, Eliot R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Equality; Implicit ingroup favoritism; Intergroup behavior; Loyalty; Prejudice malleability

Indexed keywords

EID: 52249095966     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430208095402     Document Type: Article

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