Essentialist beliefs predict automatic motor-responses to social categories

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 559-567

  Bastian, Brock ^a   Loughnan, Steve ^b   Koval, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

automatic motor behaviour; embodiment; intergroup categorization; psychological essentialism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958705637     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210385258     Document Type: Article

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