The effect of metastereotyping on judgements of higher-Status outgroups when reciprocity and social image improvement motives collide

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-23

  Owuamalam, Chuma K ^a   Farrow, Claire V ^c   Tarrant, Mark ^b   Zagefka, Hanna ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM MALAYSIA CAMPUS   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intergroup relations; Reciprocity; Social image; Social judgments; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873907917     PISSN: 0008400X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030012     Document Type: Article

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