Racing to Help: Racial Bias in High Emergency Helping Situations

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1499-1510

  Kunstman, Jonathan W ^a   Plant, E Ashby ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aversive racism; helping; intergroup relations; prejudice

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COOPERATION; EMERGENCY; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; EMERGENCIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HELPING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PREJUDICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57949098882     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012822     Document Type: Article

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