Familiarity and person construal: Individuating knowledge moderates the automaticity of category activation

European Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 852-861

  Quinn, Kimberly A ^a   Mason, Malia F ^b   Macrae, C Neil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MODEL; PERCEPTION; VALIDITY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

EID: 69249093875     PISSN: 00462772     EISSN: 10990992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.596     Document Type: Article

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