Whose family fits? Categorization and evaluation of same-sex and cross-race-parent families

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 109-124

  Kille, David R ^a   Tse, Crystal T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

cross race marriage; prejudice; same sex marriage; social perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 85006351973     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430215595106     Document Type: Article

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