Prejudice concerns and race-based attentional bias: New evidence from eyetracking

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 722-729

  Bean, Meghan G ^a   Slaten, Daniel G ^b   Horton, William S ^b   Murphy, Mary C ^c   Todd, Andrew R ^d   Richeson, Jennifer A ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d The University of Iowa   (United States)

Author keywords

individual differences; intergroup processes; intergroup relations; person perception; social cognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867694607     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612436983     Document Type: Article

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