Perceiving Discrimination in “Real Life”: Distinguishing Negative Events From Discrimination Attributions

Basic and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 166-172

  Thijs, Jochem ^a   Piscoi, Dea ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Networks ^*  (Romania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; ETHNIC GROUP; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; SELF ESTEEM;

EID: 84969134526     PISSN: 01973533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01973533.2016.1186027     Document Type: Article

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