Stigma Building Blocks: How Instruction and Experience Teach Children About Rejection by Outgroups

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 357-369

  Kang, Sonia K ^a   Inzlicht, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

development; education; intergroup processes; social exclusion rejection; stigma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PROBLEM BASED LEARNING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PREJUDICE; PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL STIGMA; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84857178814     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167211426729     Document Type: Article

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