"Yuck, you disgust me!" Affective bias against interracial couples

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 68-77

  Skinner, Allison L ^a,b   Hudac, Caitlin M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Dehumanization; Disgust; Interracial romance; Racial bias

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; DEHUMANIZATION; DISGUST; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULA; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOLOGIST; RACISM; SOCIAL COGNITION; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84975302962     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2016.05.008     Document Type: Article

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