Social discrimination and tolerance in intergroup relations: Reactions to intergroup difference

Personality and Social Psychology Review

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 158-174

  Mummendey, Amélie ^b   Wenzel, Michael ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NONE

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EID: 0033457693     PISSN: 10888683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15327957pspr0302_4     Document Type: Article

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