Effective reduction of prejudice and discrimination: Methodological considerations and three field experiments

Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale

Volumn 23, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 57-95

  Er rafiy, Abdelatif ^a   Brauer, Markus ^a   Musca, Serban C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CLERMONT AUVERGNE   (France)

Author keywords

Diversity training; Perceived variability; Prejudice reduction; Randomized field experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855133014     PISSN: 0992986X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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