Social identities and intergroup bias in immigrant and nonimmigrant children

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 496-507

  Pfeifer, Jennifer H ^a   Rubble, Diane N ^b   Bachman, Meredith A ^b   Alvarez, Jeannette M ^b   Cameron, Jessica A ^b   Fuligni, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Development; Ethnic identity; Ethnic minority children; Immigrants; Social identity theory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTITUDE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 33947525590     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.2.496     Document Type: Article

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