Folk beliefs about human genetic variation predict discrete versus continuous racial categorization and evaluative bias

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-39

  Plaks, Jason E ^a   Malahy, Lori Wu ^b   Sedlins, Mara ^b   Shoda, Yuichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

categorization; essentialism; folk beliefs; implicit evaluation; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755196637     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611408118     Document Type: Review

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