A latent semantic analysis of gender stereotype-consistency and narrowness in american english

Sex Roles

Volumn 60, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 269-278

  Lenton, Alison P ^a   Sedikides, Constantine ^b   Bruder, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gender stereotypes; Latent semantic analysis; Stereotype breadth; Stereotype content

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349101008     PISSN: 03600025     EISSN: 15732762     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11199-008-9534-z     Document Type: Article

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