Distrust and simultaneous activation of multiple categories

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 112-118

  Friesen, Justin ^a   Sinclair, Lisa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

Categorization; Distrust; Goals; Impression formation; Motivation; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051718927     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550610382666     Document Type: Article

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