The impact of group entitativity on linguistic discrimination ingroup favoritism and outgroup derogation in the explanation of negative outcome allocations

Social Psychology

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 292-299

  Moscatelli, Silvia ^a   Rubini, Monica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Group entitativity; Intergroup discrimination; Linguistic abstraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053009658     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000071     Document Type: Review

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