What do you mean by "European"? Evidence of spontaneous ingroup projection

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 960-974

  Bianchi, Mauro ^a   Mummendey, Amélie ^b   Steffens, Melanie C ^b   Yzerbyt, Vincent Y ^c  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Implicit measures; Ingroup bias; Ingroup projection; Semantic priming; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CROWDING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EUROPE; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; ITALY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; MASS BEHAVIOR; PREJUDICE; STEREOTYPING;

COGNITION; CULTURE; EUROPE; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; ITALY; MASS BEHAVIOR; PREJUDICE; PROJECTION; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 77953938622     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167210367488     Document Type: Article

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