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3 - Rethinking the Emergence and Development of Implicit Racial Bias: A Perceptual-Social Linkage Hypothesis

from Part I - Cognitive Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2017

By
Kang Lee ,
Paul C. Quinn  and
Gail D. Heyman
Edited by
Nancy Budwig ,
Elliot Turiel  and
Philip David Zelazo
Nancy Budwig
Affiliation:
Clark University, Massachusetts
Elliot Turiel
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
Philip David Zelazo
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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New Perspectives on Human Development , pp. 27 - 46
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