A foot in both worlds: Asian Americans' perceptions of Asian, white, and racially ambiguous faces

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 182-200

  Willadsen Jensen, Eve C ^a   Ito, Tiffany A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Context effects; ERPs; Racial ambiguity; Racial perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 42649137255     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207088037     Document Type: Article

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