Goals Can Be Threatened to Extinction: Using the Stroop Task to Clarify Working Memory Depletion Under Stereotype Threat

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 74-81

  Hutchison, Keith A ^a   Smith, Jessi L ^a   Ferris, Amber ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

stereotype threat; Stroop task; working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870896063     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550612440734     Document Type: Article

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