You are what you listen to: Young people's stereotypes about music fans

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 329-344

  Rentfrow, Peter J ^a   McDonald, Jennifer A ^a   Oldmeadow, Julian A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genre; Music preference; Social identity; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449156818     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209102845     Document Type: Article

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