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Joan M Barth1, Kristina L McDonald, John E Lochman

  • 1The University of Alabama, Box 870216, Tuscaloosa, AL 34587-0216, USA. jbarth@bama.ua.edu

The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|July 30, 2013
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aggressive behaviorchildrenclassroom demographicsclassroom racial compositionfifth-grade studentsin-group biasinterracial peer relationshipsopportunity hypothesisout-group biasperson-environment congruencysimilarity-attractionsocial majoritysocial minoritythreat effect

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