The automaticity of race and afrocentric facial features in social judgments

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 87, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 763-778

  Blair, Irene V ^a   Judd, Charles M ^a   Fallman, Jennifer L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; DECISION MAKING; ETHNIC GROUP; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AUTOMATISM; ETHNIC GROUPS; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 10244232911     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.87.6.763     Document Type: Article

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