The instrumental use of group prototypicality judgments

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1425-1435

  Sindic, Denis ^a,b   Reicher, Stephen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Group prototypicality; Independence; Ingroup projection; Instrumental; Self categorization; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 52749091535     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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