Towards a synthetic model of own group biases in face memory

Visual Cognition

Volumn 21, Issue 9-10, 2013, Pages 1392-1417

  Hugenberg, Kurt ^a   Wilson, John Paul ^a   See, Pirita E ^a   Young, Steven G ^b  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Motivation; Own group bias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATEGORIZATION INDIVIDUATION MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITIVE BIAS; FACE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; MODEL; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL COGNITION; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 84892823692     PISSN: 13506285     EISSN: 14640716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2013.821429     Document Type: Article

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