Reading, writing, arithmetic, and racism? risks and benefits to teaching children about intergroup biases

Child Development Perspectives

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 18-23

  Bigler, Rebecca S ^a   Wright, Yamanda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Intervention; Prejudice; Social cognition; Stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893786344     PISSN: 17508592     EISSN: 17508606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdep.12057     Document Type: Article

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