Social groups and children's intergroup prejudice: Just how influential are social group norms?;Los grupos sociales y el prejuicio intergrupal de los niños. ¿Cómo influyen las normas grupales?

Anales de Psicologia

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 600-610

  Nesdale, Drew ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Children; Group norms; Intergroup prejudice; Social group

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052776615     PISSN: 02129728     EISSN: 16952294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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