How Communication Practices and Category Norms Lead People to Stereotype Particular People and Groups

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

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 293-313

  Pratto, Felicia ^a   Hegarty, Peter J ^b   Korchmaros, Josephine D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 85145544357     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203809990-22     Document Type: Chapter

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