Looking the part: Social status cues shape race perception

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Freeman, Jonathan B ^a   Penner, Andrew M ^b   Saperstein, Aliya ^c   Scheutz, Matthias ^d   Ambady, Nalini ^c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RACE; SIMULATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; STEREOTYPY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL CLASS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL CLASS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053160852     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025107     Document Type: Article

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