Power Can Bias Impression Processes: Stereotyping Subordinates by Default and by Design

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 227-256

  Goodwin, Stephanie A ^a   Gubin, Alexandra ^b   Fiske, Susan T ^c   Yzerbyt, Vincent Y ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

impression formation; intergroup relations; power; stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993746146     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430200003003001     Document Type: Article

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