Nouns Cut Slices: Effects of Linguistic Forms on Intergroup Bias

Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 62-83

  Graf, Sylvie ^a   Bilewicz, Michal ^b   Finell, Eerika ^c   Geschke, Daniel ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

adjectives; intergroup attitudes; intergroup bias; nouns

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874069388     PISSN: 0261927X     EISSN: 15526526     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261927X12463209     Document Type: Article

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