Fanning the Flames of Prejudice: The Influence of Specific Incidental Emotions on Implicit Prejudice

Emotion

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-591

  Dasgupta, Nilanjana ^a   DeSteno, David ^b   Williams, Lisa A ^b   Hunsinger, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

automatic; implicit; intergroup emotion; prejudice; social cognition

Indexed keywords

ANGER; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HETEROSEXUALITY; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANGER; ARABS; AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 69049101071     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015961     Document Type: Article

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