Contact, perspective taking, and anxiety as predictors of stereotype endorsement, explicit attitudes, and implicit attitudes

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 179-201

  Aberson, Christopher L ^a   Haag, Sarah C ^b  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact; Evaluative associations; Explicit attitudes; Implicit attitudes

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247224193     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207074726     Document Type: Article

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