How believing in affirmative action quotas protects White men's self-esteem

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-13

  Unzueta, Miguel M ^a   Lowery, Brian S ^b   Knowles, Eric D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affirmative action beliefs; Attributional ambiguity; Diversity; Race; Reverse discrimination; Self affirmation theory; Self esteem; Self image maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349071684     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.obhdp.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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