Mechanisms for Coping with Victimization: Self-Protection Plus Self-Enhancement

On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years after Allport

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 155-171

  Jones, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Ego defenses; Mental health; Racism; Victimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956800276     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470773963.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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