Mechanisms of linguistic bias: How words reflect and maintain stereotypic expectancies

Social Cognition and Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 313-330

  Beukeboom, Camiel J ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203744628     Document Type: Chapter

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