My culture made me do it: Lay theories of responsibility for automatic prejudice

Social Psychology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 108-113

  Uhlmann, Eric Luis ^a   Nosek, Brian A ^b  

^a HEC PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributional ambiguity; Automaticity; Cultural socialization; Judgments of responsibility; Motivated reasoning; Prejudice; Self affirmation theory; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860122390     PISSN: 18649335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000089     Document Type: Article

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