Selective responses to threat: The roles of race and gender in decisions to shoot

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1274-1281

  Plant, E Ashby ^a   Goplen, Joanna ^a   Kunstman, Jonathan W ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gender; prejudice; racial bias; racism; sexism; shooter bias

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FEMALE; FIREARM; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POLICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RACE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGGRESSION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FIREARMS; HUMANS; MALE; POLICE; PREJUDICE; SEX FACTORS; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 79960712096     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211408617     Document Type: Article

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