Prejudice: How it develops and how it can be undone

Human Development

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 371-376

  Dweck, Carol S ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE TO SEXUALITY; DECISION MAKING; EGO DEVELOPMENT; EMPATHY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNICITY; GENDER IDENTITY; GOAL ATTAINMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JURISPRUDENCE; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MOTIVATION; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; STEREOTYPY;

EID: 73349137306     PISSN: 0018716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000242351     Document Type: Review

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