Social Class Differences in N400 Indicate Differences in Spontaneous Trait Inference.
An emerging literature indicates that dispositional bias in causal attribution of social behavior is weaker for people with working-class (vs. middle-class) backgrounds. However, it is unknown whether this difference is also present in spontaneous forms of trait inference. In the current work, Ameri...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Experimental Psychology. General Vol. 141; no. 3; pp. 518 - 527 |
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