The impact of stereotypical versus counterstereotypical media exemplars on racial attitudes, causal attributions, and support for affirmative action

Communication Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 497-516

  Ramasubramanian, Srividya ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

exemplars; experiment; racial attitudes; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959555972     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650210384854     Document Type: Article

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