The obama effect six years later: The effect of exposure to obama on implicit anti-black evaluative bias and implicit racial stereotyping

Social Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 523-543

  Columb, Corey ^a   Plant, E Ashby ^b  

^a PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barack obama; Exemplars; Implicit anti black evaluative bias; Implicit racial stereotyping

Indexed keywords

EXPOSURE; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 84994803384     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2016.34.6.523     Document Type: Review

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