Attitudes toward affirmative action: Correlations with demographic variables and with beliefs about targets, actions, and economic effects

Journal of Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1109-1136

  Kravitz, David A ^a   Klineberg, Stephen L ^a   Avery, Derek R ^a   Nguyen, Ann Kim ^a   Lund, Christopher ^a   Fu, Emery J ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034195091     PISSN: 00219029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2000.tb02513.x     Document Type: Article

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