1. The communicative etiology of consensual stereotypes: Integrating common information bias and positive ingroup bias Open Access Author: Zhu, Xun Title: The communicative etiology of consensual stereotypes: Integrating common information bias and positive ingroup bias Graduate Program: Communication Arts and Sciences Keywords: consensual stereotypessocial identitysocial comparisonssmall group communicationintergroup communicationlinguistic abstractionsocial influenceheuristicsmultilevel modelingmultilevel mediationexperiment File: Download Dissertation_ZHU_Final.pdf Committee Members: Rachel A. Smith, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorRachel A. Smith, Committee Chair/Co-ChairLijiang Shen, Committee MemberJon F. NussBaum, Committee MemberD. Wayne Osgood, Outside MemberDennis S. Gouran, Committee Member