Responding to Gender-Based Rejection: Objecting Against Negative and Disproving Positive Intergroup Differentiation

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 151-158

  Cihangir, Sezgin ^a,b   Scheepers, Daan ^a   Barreto, Manuela ^c,d   Ellemers, Naomi ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Dutch Hospital Data   (Netherlands)

^c Centre for Social Research and Intervention   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

challenge; responses to prejudice; sexism; social stigma; threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874151286     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612448195     Document Type: Article

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