Sharing differences: The inductive route to social identity formation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1145-1149

  Jans, Lise ^a   Postmes, Tom ^a   Van der Zee, Karen I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diversity; Identification; Social identity formation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863299908     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.04.013     Document Type: Article

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