Political Correctness Beliefs, Threatened Identities, and Social Attitudes

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 317-336

  Lalonde, Richard N ^a   Doan, Lara ^a   Patterson, Lorraine A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

censorship; political psychology; social identity; stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993698713     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430200033006     Document Type: Article

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