A Peek Inside the Targets' Toolbox: How Stigmatized Targets Deflect Discrimination by Invoking a Common Identity

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 141-149

  Schmader, Toni ^a   Croft, Alyssa ^a   Whitehead, Jessica ^b   Stone, Jeff ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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EID: 84873695871     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2012.746615     Document Type: Article

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