A Nation Challenged: The Impact of Foreign Threat on America's Tolerance for Diversity

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 308-318

  Davies, Paul G ^a   Steele, Claude M ^b   Markus, Hazel Rose ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

9 11; assimilation; multiculturalism; social identity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; POLICY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

CULTURAL DIVERSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; PUBLIC POLICY; SEPTEMBER 11 TERRORIST ATTACKS; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 58149113502     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.95.2.308     Document Type: Article

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