Think of capable others and you can make it! self-efficacy mediates the effect of stereotype activation on behavior

Social Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 76-88

  Hansen, Jochim ^a   Wänke, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 62349124931     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2009.27.1.76     Document Type: Article

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