No Longer “All-American”? Whites’ Defensive Reactions to Their Numerical Decline

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 210-218

  Danbold, Felix ^a   Huo, Yuen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

demographic changes; diversity; identity threat; intergroup relations; intergroup threat; moderated mediation; prototypicality; Whites

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922770351     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614546355     Document Type: Article

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