Preschool children's attention to environmental messages about groups: Social categorization and the origins of intergroup bias

Child Development

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 847-860

  Patterson, Meagan M ^a   Bigler, Rebecca S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; ATTITUDE; DAY CARE; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOMETRIC STATUS;

ATTENTION; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PREJUDICE; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 33746340874     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00906.x     Document Type: Review

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