White Look-Alikes: Mainstream Culture Adoption Makes Immigrants “Look” Phenotypically White

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 265-282

  Kunst, Jonas R ^a   Dovidio, John F ^b   Dotsch, Ron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acculturation; common identity; dual identity; integration support; multiculturalism; reverse correlation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CAUCASIAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRANT; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85040187748     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167217739279     Document Type: Article

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