Power fosters context-independent, analytic cognition

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1449-1458

  Miyamoto, Yuri ^a   Ji, Li Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

analytic and holistic cognition; categorization; linguistic categories; power; SES

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS;

EID: 80052824679     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211411485     Document Type: Article

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