Diversity initiatives, status, and system-justifying beliefs: When and how diversity efforts de-legitimize discrimination claims

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 485-493

  Dover, Tessa L ^a   Major, Brenda ^a   Kaiser, Cheryl R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

derogation; discrimination; diversity; group status; legitimization; system justifying beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993728980     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430213502560     Document Type: Article

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