The effect of racial primes on the test performance of African-American and European-American children

Revue Internationale de Psychologie Sociale

Volumn 27, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 161-174

  Steele, Jennifer R ^a   Bianchi, Emily C ^b   Ambady, Nalini ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Prime to behavior; Priming; Race; Stereotype activation; Stereotype threat; Test performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019749380     PISSN: 0992986X     EISSN: 21194130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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