The nature of contemporary racial prejudice: Insight from implicit and explicit measures of attitudes

Attitudes: Insights from the New Implicit Measures

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 163-192

  Dovidio, John F ^a   Kawakami, Kerry ^b   Smoak, Natalie ^c   Gaertner, Samuel L ^d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203809884     Document Type: Chapter

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