“Not One of Us”: Predictors and Consequences of Denying Ingroup Characteristics to Ambiguous Targets

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1231-1247

  Kteily, Nour ^a   Cotterill, Sarah ^b   Sidanius, Jim ^b   Sheehy Skeffington, Jennifer ^b   Bergh, Robin ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

group categorization; hypodescent; ingroup overexclusion; right wing authoritarianism; social dominance orientation; terrorism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; POLITICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STEREOTYPING;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84908507352     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167214539708     Document Type: Article

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