Race Salience and Essentialist Thinking in Racial Stereotype Development

Child Development

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1799-1813

  Pauker, Kristin ^a   Ambady, Nalini ^b   Apfelbaum, Evan P ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THINKING;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; THINKING;

EID: 78449311055     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01511.x     Document Type: Article

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