Dynamic Social Impact and the Evolution of Social Representations: A Natural History of Stereotypes

1996/12/01 by Mark Schaller, Bibb Latané · 44 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anthropology #Biology #Ecology #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Language and cultural evolution #Natural (archaeology) #Natural history #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #Psychology #Social evolution #Social psychology #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1996.tb01506.x

published in Journal of Communication 46(4), 64-77 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

It should be evident by now that, like cells and organisms, populations are kept together and integrated by systems of communication. (MacArthur & Connell, 1766, p. 119)

Citations

• The Organization of Behavior
• Beliefs, Reasoning, and Decision Making
• Discourse and Social Psychology
• On the psychophysical law.
• Notes towards a description of Social Representations

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