It's not your fault: The social costs of claiming discrimination on behalf of someone else

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 487-502

  Eliezer, Dina ^a   Major, Brenda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

discrimination; person perception; sexism; status; system justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863193922     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430211432894     Document Type: Article

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