When your friends matter: The effect of White students' racial friendship networks on meta-perceptions and perceived identity contingencies

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1035-1041

  Wout, Daryl A ^a   Murphy, Mary C ^b   Steele, Claude M ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Blacks; Interracial friendships; Intraracial friendships; Meta perceptions; Perceived identity contingencies; Stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956617852     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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