Social status and the pursuit of positive social identity: Systematic domains of intergroup differentiation and discrimination for high- and low-status groups

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 425-444

  Oldmeadow, Julian A ^a   Fiske, Susan T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

discrimination; positive distinctiveness; social identity; status; stereotype content

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049342776     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209355650     Document Type: Article

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