Exposure to Racial Out-Groups and Implicit Race Bias in the United States

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 535-543

  Rae, James R ^a   Newheiser, Anna Kaisa ^b   Olson, Kristina R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

diversity; Implicit Association Test; implicit bias; intergroup relations; race

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930428053     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550614567357     Document Type: Article

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