Whites are granted the american identity more swiftly than Asians: Disentangling the role of automatic and controlled processes

Social Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 192-201

  Devos, Thierry ^a,b   Heng, Leakhena ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accessibility; Automatic; Control; Dissociation; Ethnicity; Implicit; National identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350438801     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335.40.4.192     Document Type: Article

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