The influence of social class salience on selfassessed intelligence

Social Behavior and Personality

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 859-864

  Kudrna, Laura ^a   Furnham, Adrian ^b   Swami, Viren ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Higher Education Learning Philosophy University College   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Self assessed intelligence; Sex differences; Social class; Stereotype lift; Stereotype threat; Subjective social status

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954544758     PISSN: 03012212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2224/sbp.2010.38.6.861     Document Type: Article

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