Cultural Dynamics of Stereotypes: Social Network Processes and the Perpetuation of Stereotypes

Stereotype Dynamics: Language-Based Approaches to the Formation, Maintenance, and Transformation of Stereotypes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 59-92

  Lyons, Anthony ^a   Clark, Anna ^b   Kashima, Yoshihisa ^c   Kurz, Tim ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809990-10     Document Type: Chapter

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