Representations of social groups in the early years of life

The SAGE Handbook of Social Cognition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 372-389

  Ziv, Talee ^a   Banaji, Mahzarin R ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446247631.n19     Document Type: Chapter

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