Perceptual Bias in Threat Distance: The Critical Roles of In-Group Support and Target Evaluations in Defensive Threat Regulation

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 12-17

  Cesario, Joseph ^a   Navarrete, Carlos David ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coalitional psychology; defensive threat regulation; in group as resource; motivated perception; perceptual bias; resource holding power

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890724853     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613485605     Document Type: Article

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