Categorization, Recategorization, and Intergroup Bias

On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years after Allport

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 71-88

  Gaertner, Samuel L ^a   Dovidio, John F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Categorization; Decategorization; Intergroup bias; Prejudice; Recategorization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889372998     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773963.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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