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Twenty years of stereotype threat research: a review of psychological mediators. / Pennington, Charlotte Rebecca; Heim, Derek ; Levy, Andrew et al.
In: PLoS ONE, Vol. 11, No. 1, e0146487, 11.01.2016.

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Pennington, CR, Heim, D, Levy, A & Larkin, D 2016, 'Twenty years of stereotype threat research: a review of psychological mediators', PLoS ONE, vol. 11, no. 1, e0146487. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146487

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Pennington, C. R., Heim, D., Levy, A., & Larkin, D. (2016). Twenty years of stereotype threat research: a review of psychological mediators. PLoS ONE, 11(1), Article e0146487. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0146487

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Pennington CR, Heim D, Levy A, Larkin D. Twenty years of stereotype threat research: a review of psychological mediators. PLoS ONE. 2016 Jan 11;11(1):e0146487. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146487

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Pennington, Charlotte Rebecca ; Heim, Derek ; Levy, Andrew et al. / Twenty years of stereotype threat research : a review of psychological mediators. In: PLoS ONE. 2016 ; Vol. 11, No. 1.

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