Studying a Heterogeneous Array of Target Groups Can Help Us Understand Prejudice

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2019, Pages 292-298

  Brandt, Mark J ^a   Crawford, Jarret T ^b  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b The College of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

ideology; individual differences; personality; prejudice; representative stimuli

Indexed keywords

EID: 85063971452     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: 14678721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0963721419830382     Document Type: Article

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