What Lies Beneath? Minority Group Members’ Suspicion of Whites’ Egalitarian Motivation Predicts Responses to Whites’ Smiles

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1193-1205

  Kunstman, Jonathan W ^a   Tuscherer, Taylor ^b   Trawalter, Sophie ^c   Lloyd, E Paige ^a  

^a MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAKE FOREST COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attributional ambiguity; emotion perception; intergroup processes; stigma

Indexed keywords

FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; MINORITY GROUP; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; STIGMA; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CAUCASIAN; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGY; RACISM;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ATTENTION; CUES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; MOTIVATION; RACISM; SMILING; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84982937947     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167216652860     Document Type: Article

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