Ask, Answer, and Announce: Three stages in perceiving and responding to discrimination

European Review of Social Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 277-311

  Stangor, Charles ^a   Swim, Janet K ^b   Sechrist, Gretchen B ^c   DeCoster, Jamie ^d   Van Allen, Katherine L ^a   Ottenbreit, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 3042721019     PISSN: 10463283     EISSN: 1479277X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10463280340000090     Document Type: Article

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