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Perceptual Accentuation

Perceptual Accentuation is a cognitive mechanism in the domain of stereotype formation whereby individuals exaggerate the perceived differences between social groups while minimizing within-group variability, thereby enhancing categorization through selective attention to distinctive intergroup features.

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Variants

Accentuation Effect

Parents

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Melodic accent: Experiments and a tentative model

J.M.E.W. Thomassen · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1982 · 155 citations

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Unique individual or interchangeable group member? The accentuation of intragroup differences versus similarities as an indicator of the individual self versus the collective self.

Bernd Simon, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Amélie Mummendey · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 1995 · 148 citations

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The Negro stereotype and perceptual accentuation.

Paul F. Secord, William Bevan, Brenda Katz · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 1956 · 125 citations

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When Memory Shifts Toward More Typical Category Exemplars: Accentuation Effects in the Recollection of Ethnically Ambiguous Faces.

Olivier Corneille, Johanne Huart, Emilie Becquart et al. · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · 2004 · 112 citations · Full text

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The Accentuation Bias

David Dubois, Derek D. Rucker, Adam D. Galinsky · Social Psychological and Personality Science · 2010 · 100 citations

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Authors

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  1. MR
    Myron Rothbart

    University of Oregon, United States

    4 publications · 176 citations

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  2. JI
    Joachim I. Krueger

    Brown University, United States

    4 publications · 176 citations

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  3. CM
    Charles M. Judd

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    3 publications · 147 citations

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  4. JV
    J. van der Pligt

    University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    3 publications · 69 citations

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  5. OC
    Olivier Corneille

    UCLouvain, Belgium

    3 publications · 218 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Münster

    Münster, Germany

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    373 citations

  2. UCLouvain

    Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    152 citations

  3. Australian National University

    Canberra, Australia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    168 citations

  4. KU Leuven

    Leuven, Belgium

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    244 citations

  5. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  6. University of Hong Kong

    Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  7. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    36 citations

  8. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    20 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

    11 publications · 624 citations

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  2. British Journal of Social Psychology

    2 publications · 98 citations

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  3. Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology

    2 publications · 143 citations

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  4. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

    JASA · 2 publications · 172 citations

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  5. Perceptual and Motor Skills

    1 publications · 17 citations

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