Implicit theories and psychological essentialism: Conceptual tools for the study of the relations between and within the groups;Teorías implícitas y esencialismo psicológico: Herramientas conceptuales para el estudio de las relaciones entre y dentro de los grupos

Psykhe

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-121

  Estrada Goic, Claudia ^a,c   Oyarzún Jara, Miriam ^a   Yzerbyt, Vincent ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c Université Catholique de Louvain ^*  (Chile)

Author keywords

Essentialism; Implicit theories; Inter group relations; Intra group relations; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

EID: 57649219775     PISSN: 07170297     EISSN: 07182228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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