Danger stereotypes predict racially biased attentional allocation

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1328-1333

  Donders, Nicole C ^a   Correll, Joshua ^a   Wittenbrink, Bernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional bias; Dot probe; Fear conditioning; Prejudice; Race; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 48749092064     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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