Reducing Children's Implicit Racial Bias Through Exposure to Positive Out-Group Exemplars

Child Development

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 123-130

  Gonzalez, Antonya M ^a   Steele, Jennifer R ^b   Baron, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RACISM; AGE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MALE; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RACISM; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84993660381     PISSN: 00093920     EISSN: 14678624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12582     Document Type: Article

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