An evolutionary model of racial attitude formation: Socially shared and idiosyncratic racial attitudes

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 614, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 74-101

  Craemer, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Cognitive overlap; Computational modeling; Explicit racial attitudes; Hebbian learning; Implicit racial attitudes; Neutral theory of evolution; Random drift

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348894315     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716207305979     Document Type: Article

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