Differentiating social and personal power: Opposite effects on stereotyping, but parallel effects on behavioral approach tendencies

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1543-1549

  Lammers, Joris ^a   Stoker, Janka I ^b   Stapel, Diederik A ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 74549200968     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02479.x     Document Type: Article

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