Social category salience moderates the effect of diversity faultlines on information elaboration

Small Group Research

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 257-282

  Meyer, Bertolt ^a   Shemla, Meir ^b   Schermuly, Carsten C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diversity; Faultlines; Social Categorization; Subgroups

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955682035     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496411398396     Document Type: Review

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