Code
01D30908
Duration
01 October 2008 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Social psychology
Keywords
social categorization
stereotypes
prejudice
subgroups
social cognition
Project description
The aim of this project is to examine whether social catagories such as men/women and indigene/immigrant are mentally represented by subgroups of these categories, in contrast to what classic prototype and examplar models postulate. Furthermore, individual differences concerning the extent to which subgroups are used, are inspected in detail and the relation between mental representation and discrimination/prejudice is thoroughly investigated.