(Close) Distance Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Improving Implicit Racial Attitudes and Interracial Interactions Through Approach Behaviors

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 957-971

  Kawakami, Kerry ^a   Phills, Curtis E ^a   Steele, Jennifer R ^a   Dovidio, John F ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

approach; avoidance; implicit attitudes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

ADULT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

EID: 34547473607     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.92.6.957     Document Type: Article

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