Preserving positive identities: Public and private regard for one's ingroup and susceptibility to stereotype threat

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-67

  Ho, Arnold K ^a   Sidanius, Jim ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black identity; Racial regard; Stereotype threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 72549085117     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430209340910     Document Type: Article

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