The Role of Situational Cues in Signaling and Maintaining Stereotype Threat

Stereotype Threat: Theory, Process, and Application

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Murphy, Mary C ^a   Taylor, Valerie Jones ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environment; Situational cues; Stereotype activation; Stereotype maintenance; Stereotype threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921816245     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732449.003.0002     Document Type: Chapter

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