The development of race-based perceptual categorization skin color dominates early category judgments

Developmental Science

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 469-483

  Dunham, Yarrow ^a   Stepanova, Elena V ^b   Dotsch, Ron ^c   Todorov, Alexander ^c,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ANCESTRY GROUP; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; COLOR VISION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECOGNITION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CUES; DECISION MAKING; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SKIN PIGMENTATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927734479     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/desc.12228     Document Type: Article

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