Explanation and intergroup emotion: Social explanations as a foundation of prejudice-related compunction

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 87-106

  Gill, Michael J ^a   Andreychik, Michael R ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Prejudice related compunction; Social explanations

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846207450     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207071343     Document Type: Article

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