Mind the Gap: Increasing Associations Between the Self and Blacks With Approach Behaviors

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 197-210

  Phills, Curtis E ^a   Kawakami, Kerry ^a   Tabi, Emmanuel ^a   Nadolny, Daniel ^a   Inzlicht, Michael ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approach; Identification; Prejudice; Self; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NEGRO; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ASSOCIATION; ATTITUDE; EGO; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 79951565578     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022159     Document Type: Article

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