On the ideology of hypodescent: Political conservatism predicts categorization of racially ambiguous faces as Black

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1196-1203

  Krosch, Amy R ^a   Berntsen, Leslie ^b   Amodio, David M ^a   Jost, John T ^a   Van Bavel, Jay J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Face perception; Hypodescent; Political ideology; Political orientation; Racial categorization; System justification

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884709422     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2013.05.009     Document Type: Article

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