Racial ingroup and outgroup attention biases revealed by event-related brain potentials

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 189-198

  Dickter, Cheryl L ^a   Bartholow, Bruce D ^b  

^a UNION COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Event related potentials; Gender; Implicit; Race; Social categorization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NEGRO; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ATTENTION; BRAIN; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 34548601639     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsm012     Document Type: Article

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