" What About Me?" Perceptions of Exclusion and Whites' Reactions to Multiculturalism

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 337-353

  Plaut, Victoria C ^a   Garnett, Flannery G ^b   Buffardi, Laura E ^c   Sanchez Burks, Jeffrey ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Color blindness; Diversity; Inclusion; Multiculturalism; Need to belong

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PREJUDICE; REACTION TIME; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960829213     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022832     Document Type: Article

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