Close contact with racial outgroup members moderates attentional allocation towards outgroup versus ingroup faces

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 76-88

  Dickter, Cheryl L ^a   Gagnon, Kyle T ^b   Gyurovski, Ivo I ^c   Brewington, B Scott ^a  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Attentional allocation; Contact theory; Dot probe; Racial bias; Racial outgroup

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918586095     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430214527854     Document Type: Article

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