Social psychology and neuroscience: Strange bedfellows or a healthy marriage?

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 247-263

  Dovidio, John F ^a   Pearson, Adam R ^a   Orr, Patrick ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emotion; Implicit attitudes; Intergroup relations; Neuroimaging; Prejudice; Racism; Social neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649131731     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207088041     Document Type: Article

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