Managing Ambivalent Prejudices: Smart-but-Cold and Warm-but-Dumb Stereotypes

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 639, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-48

  Fiske, Susan T ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

age; class; discrimination; gender; prejudice; race; stereotypes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865867916     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716211418444     Document Type: Article

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