Target prototypicality moderates racial bias in the decision to shoot

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 391-396

  Ma, Debbie S ^a   Correll, Joshua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision to shoot; Feature based stereotyping; Implicit; Police officers; Prototypicality; Stereotyping; Within category variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79651471264     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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