Individuation motivation and face experience can operate jointly to produce the own-race bias

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-87

  Young, Steven G ^a   Hugenberg, Kurt ^b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

interracial contact; motivation; own race bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 83755228771     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611409759     Document Type: Review

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