Multiple group membership influences face-recognition: Recall and neurological evidence

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1262-1268

  Hehman, Eric ^a   Stanley, Emily M ^a   Gaertner, Samuel L ^a   Simons, Robert F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorisation; ERP; Intergroup process; N200; Person perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051896275     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.05.014     Document Type: Article

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