When I becomes we: Associative self-anchoring drives implicit intergroup bias in minimal groups

Social Psychology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 253-264

  Roth, Jenny ^a   Steffens, Melanie C ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognitive balance; Intergroup bias; Minimal groups; Self anchoring; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916220217     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: 21512590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000169     Document Type: Article

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