The police officer's dilemma: Using ethnicity to disambiguate potentially threatening individuals

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1314-1329

  Correll, Joshua ^a   Park, Bernadette ^a   Judd, Charles M ^a   Wittenbrink, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b University of Colorado ^*

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EID: 0038797860     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.6.1314     Document Type: Article

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