Stereotype Boost: Positive Outcomes from the Activation of Positive Stereotypes

Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shih, Margaret J ^a   Pittinsky, Todd L ^b   Ho, Geoffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Model minority; Positive stereotypes; Stereotype boost; Stereotype threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880249549     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732449.003.0009     Document Type: Chapter

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