Targets as Perceivers: How People Determine When They Will Be Negatively Stereotyped

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 349-362

  Wout, Daryl A ^a   Shih, Margaret J ^b   Jackson, James S ^c   Sellers, Robert M ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

academic achievement; Blacks; metastereotypes; social perception; stereotype threat

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ACHIEVEMENT; AFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 60749128958     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0012880     Document Type: Article

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