The effects of linguistic abstraction on evaluations of the speaker in an intergroup context: Using the Linguistic Intergroup Bias makes you a good group member

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 113-119

  Assilaméhou, Yvette ^a   Testé, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ RENNES 2   (France)

Author keywords

Evaluation of the speaker; Group member evaluation; Language abstraction; Linguistic Intergroup Bias; Social reactions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867548728     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.08.001     Document Type: Article

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