The world in black and white: Ostracism enhances the categorical perception of social information

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 836-842

  Sacco, Donald F ^a   Wirth, James H ^b   Hugenberg, Kurt ^a   Chen, Zhansheng ^c   Williams, Kipling D ^d  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Motivation; Social exclusion; Social perception; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955162641     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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