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Locating the central core of social representations: Towards a method
Author(s) -
Guimelli Christian
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
european journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1099-0992
pISSN - 0046-2772
DOI - 10.1002/ejsp.2420230511
Subject(s) - core (optical fiber) , associative property , psychology , task (project management) , social relation , association (psychology) , social psychology , cognitive psychology , computer science , mathematics , pure mathematics , telecommunications , management , economics , psychotherapist
A method is presented for locating the central core of social representations which is based on the study of associative relations. The procedure proposed allows estimation of the quantity of the various relations which an inductive item has with induced items produced by subjects during an association task. The procedure shows that when the inductive item is a part of the central core of social representations, the number of relations is significantly greater.