Distributing Prejudice Unequally: Do Whites Direct Their Prejudice Toward Strongly Identified Minorities?

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 432-445

  Kaiser, Cheryl R ^a   Pratt Hyatt, Jennifer S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

group identification; legitimacy; prejudice; race ethnicity; stigma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PERCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60749090631     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012877     Document Type: Article

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