Perspective-taking and empathy: Generalizing the reduction of group bias towards Asian Americans to general outgroups

Asian American Journal of Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 79-83

  Shih, Margaret J ^a   Stotzer, Rebecca ^b   Gutiérrez, Angélica S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

empathy; group bias; implicit bias; perspective taking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879821751     PISSN: 19481985     EISSN: 19481993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0029790     Document Type: Review

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