You deplete me: The cognitive costs of colorblindness on ethnic minorities

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 562-565

  Holoien, Deborah Son ^a   Shelton, J Nicole ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive depletion; Colorblindness; Interracial interaction; Multiculturalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857141298     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.09.010     Document Type: Article

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