Dangerous enough: Moderating racial bias with contextual threat cues

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 184-189

  Correll, Joshua ^a   Wittenbrink, Bernd ^a   Park, Bernadette ^b   Judd, Charles M ^b   Goyle, Arina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Context; Racial bias; Threat perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650028799     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.08.017     Document Type: Article

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