Perceptions of racial confrontation: The role of color blindness and comment ambiguity

Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 92-96

  Zou, Linda X ^a   Dickter, Cheryl L ^a  

^a The College of William and Mary   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Color blind racial ideology; Confrontation; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COLOR BLINDNESS; EDUCATION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEOLOGY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PERCEPTION; RACISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 84883191313     PISSN: 10999809     EISSN: 19390106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0031115     Document Type: Article

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