The role of afrocentric features in person perception: Judging by features and categories

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 5-25

  Blair, Irene V ^a   Judd, Charles M ^a   Sadler, Melody S ^a   Jenkins, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FACE; HUMAN; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VISION;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; FACE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STEREOTYPING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 85047671120     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.83.1.5     Document Type: Article

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