The White ceiling heuristic and the underestimation of Asian-American income

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Martin, Chris C ^a   Nezlek, John B ^b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^c SWPS UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ASIAN AMERICAN; CAUCASIAN; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; NORMAL HUMAN; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL BELIEF; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; STEREOTYPING; STEREOTYPY; VERY ELDERLY; WHITE CEILING HEURISTIC; ADOLESCENT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; KNOWLEDGE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCOME; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907494527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0108732     Document Type: Article

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