Seeing "us vs. them": Minimal group effects on the neural encoding of faces

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 298-301

  Ratner, Kyle G ^a   Amodio, David M ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ERP; Face processing; Group categorization; Minimal group; N170

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871733422     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.10.017     Document Type: Article

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