Racial prejudice predicts opposition to Obama and his health care reform plan

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 420-423

  Knowles, Eric D ^a   Lowery, Brian S ^b   Schaumberg, Rebecca L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barack Obama; Implicit prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749098415     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2009.10.011     Document Type: Article

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