Implicit and explicit attitudes toward african americans and barack obama did not substantively change during obama's presidency

Social Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 559-588

  Schmidt, Kathleen ^a   Axt, Jordan R ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitude malleability; Barack obama; Explicit attitudes; Implicit attitudes

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; WRITING;

EID: 84994845896     PISSN: 0278016X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/soco.2016.34.6.559     Document Type: Review

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