Contextual variation in automatic evaluative bias to racially-ambiguous faces

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 818-823

  Ito, Tiffany A ^a   Willadsen Jensen, Eve C ^a   Kaye, Jesse T ^a   Park, Bernadette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit bias; Multiracial faces; Racial bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955166704     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.02.016     Document Type: Article

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