At the crossroads of conspicuous and concealable: What race categories communicate about sexual orientation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Johnson, Kerri L ^a   Ghavami, Negin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LESBIAN; MALE; MALE HOMOSEXUAL; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STEREOTYPY; ASSOCIATION; HOMOSEXUALITY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

CUES; FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 79953327139     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018025     Document Type: Article

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