Linguistic description moderates the evaluations of counterstereotypical people

Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 289-298

  Rubin, Mark ^a   Paolini, Stefania ^a   Crisp, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backlash effect; Category expectancy violation; Counterstereotypical; Processing fluency; Shifting standards; Stereotypical

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883044731     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000114     Document Type: Article

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