Inequality as ingroup privilege or outgroup disadvantage: The impact of group focus on collective guilt and interracial attitudes

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 508-521

  Powell, Adam A ^a   Branscombe, Nyla R ^a   Schmitt, Michael T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective guilt; Prejudice; Racial inequality; White identification; White privilege

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; GUILT; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STUDENT; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; GUILT; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RACE RELATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STUDENTS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 15844386824     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167204271713     Document Type: Article

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