Like me or like us is ingroup projection just social projection?

Experimental Psychology

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 198-205

  Bianchi, Mauro ^a   Machunsky, Maya ^b   Steffens, Melanie C ^c   Mummendey, Amélie ^c  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ingroup bias; Ingroup projection; Social projection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURE; FEMALE; GENERALIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PROJECTION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64249145019     PISSN: 16183169     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.3.198     Document Type: Article

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