Is facial skin tone sufficient to produce a cross-racial identification effect?

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 92, Issue 3 PART 2, 2001, Pages 1191-1198

  Alley, Thomas R ^a   Schultheis, Jennifer A ^b  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RACE; SKIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SKIN;

EID: 0035377294     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2001.92.3c.1191     Document Type: Article

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