Mechanisms of group membership and exemplar exposure effects on implicit attitudes

Social Psychology

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 158-168

  Gonsalkorale, Karen ^a   Allen, Thomas J ^b   Sherman, Jeffrey W ^b   Klauer, Karl Christoph ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attitude change; Automatic associations; Implicit prejudice; Ingroup bias; Self regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955860806     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000023     Document Type: Article

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