Perceiving and feeling personal discrimination: Motivation or inhibition for collective action?

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-174

  Foster, Mindi D ^a   Matheson, Kimberly ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collective action; Personal discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000520592     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430298012004     Document Type: Article

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