"The casual cruelty of our prejudices": On Walter Lippmann's theory of stereotype and its "obliteration" in psychology and social science

Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 363-394

  Bottom, William P ^a   Kong, Dejun Tony ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORY; HUMAN; POLICY; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH; STEREOTYPING;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84867479692     PISSN: 00225061     EISSN: 15206696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhbs.21565     Document Type: Article

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