The linguistic category model

Handbook of Theories of Social Psychology: Volume 1

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 309-326

  Semin, Gün R ^a,b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation   (Portugal)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446249215.n16     Document Type: Chapter

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