Wealthy Whites and poor Blacks: Implicit associations between racial groups and wealth predict explicit opposition toward helping the poor

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 82, Issue , 2019, Pages 26-34

  Brown Iannuzzi, Jazmin L ^a   Cooley, Erin ^b   McKee, Stephanie E ^a   Hyden, Charly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

Author keywords

Implicit attitudes; Income inequality; Political psychology; Prejudice; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL COGNITION; VALIDITY;

EID: 85059234561     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.11.006     Document Type: Article

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