'I hope we won't have to understand racism one day': Researching or reproducing 'race' in social psychological research?

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 407-426

  Howarth, Caroline ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIALIZATION;

CHILD; CONCEPT FORMATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; MALE; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; RESEARCH; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 70350015504     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466608X360727     Document Type: Article

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