Children's responses to group-based inequalities: Perpetuation and rectification

Social Cognition

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 270-287

  Olson, Kristina R ^a,c   Dweck, Carol S ^b   Spelke, Elizabeth S ^a   Banaji, Mahzarin R ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79959995600     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2011.29.3.270     Document Type: Article

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