Accuracy of national stereotypes in Central Europe: Outgroups are not better than ingroup in considering personality traits of real people

European Journal of Personality

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 60-72

  Hrebickova, Martina ^a   Graf, Sylvie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Five factor model; National autostereotypes; National heterostereotypes; Stereotype accuracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893846962     PISSN: 08902070     EISSN: 10990984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/per.1904     Document Type: Article

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