How believing in affirmative action quotas affects White women's self-image

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 120-126

  Unzueta, Miguel M ^a   Gutiérrez, Angélica S ^a   Ghavami, Negin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Affirmative action; Gender; Race; Self esteem; Self image maintenance; White women

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449631042     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.08.017     Document Type: Article

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