Stupid Doctors and Smart Construction Workers: Perspective-Taking Reduces Stereotyping of Both Negative and Positive Targets

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 430-436

  Wang, Cynthia S ^a   Ku, Gillian ^b   Tai, Kenneth ^c   Galinsky, Adam D ^d  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LONDON BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

intergroup relations; perspective taking; prejudice stereotyping; self esteem; self identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898867715     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550613504968     Document Type: Article

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