The costs of caring: Gender identification increases threat following exposure to sexism

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 159-165

  Eliezer, Dina ^a   Major, Brenda ^a   Mendes, Wendy Berry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Group identification; Prejudice; Sexism; Stress; Threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449628882     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.09.015     Document Type: Article

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