An Integration of Processes that Underlie Stereotype Threat

Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application

Volumn 9780199732449, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Schmader, Toni ^a   Beilock, Sian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic and controlled processes; Self regulation; Stereotype threat; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921712001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732449.003.0003     Document Type: Chapter

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