The feedback withholding bias: Minority students do not receive critical feedback from evaluators concerned about appearing racist

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1139-1144

  Croft, Alyssa ^a   Schmader, Toni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Feedback; Learning; Minority; Motivation; Prejudice; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863313938     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.04.010     Document Type: Article

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