Acceptance of Feedback by the Stigmatized and Non-Stigmatized: The Mediating Role of the Motive of the Evaluator

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-95

  Britt, Thomas W ^a   Crandall, Christian S ^b  

^a King College   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

feedback; motive; race; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993726004     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430200031005     Document Type: Article

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