You want to appear competent? Be mean! You want to appear sociable? Be lazy! Group differentiation and the compensation effect

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 363-367

  Kervyn, Nicolas ^a,c   Judd, Charles M ^b   Yzerbyt, Vincent Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Found de la Recherche Scientifique   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Compensation; Competence; Impression formation; Stereotypes; Warmth

Indexed keywords

EID: 64049108080     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.08.006     Document Type: Article

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