When need for closure leads to positive attitudes towards a negatively stereotyped outgroup

Motivation and Emotion

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 88-98

  Kossowska, Małgorzata ^a   Dragon, Piotr ^a   Bukowski, Marcin ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ability to achieve closure; Attitudes towards outgroup; Need for closure; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939880801     PISSN: 01467239     EISSN: 15736644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11031-014-9414-5     Document Type: Article

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