Essentializing race: Implications for bicultural individuals' cognition and physiological reactivity

Psychological Science

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 341-348

  Chao, Melody Manchi ^a   Chen, Jing ^a   Roisman, Glenn I ^a   Hong, Ying Yi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Psychology Building ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; RACE; REACTION TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME;

EID: 34247588813     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01901.x     Document Type: Article

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