Racial Bias Shapes Social Reinforcement Learning

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 711-719

  Lindström, Björn ^a   Selbing, Ida ^a   Molapour, Tanaz ^a   Olsson, Andreas ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

emotions; learning; racial and ethnic attitudes and relations; social influences

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEARNING; MALE; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM; REINFORCEMENT;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LEARNING; MALE; RACISM; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896894927     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797613514093     Document Type: Article

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