What do we think about Muslims? The validity of Westerners' implicit theories about the associations between Muslims' religiosity, religious identity, aggression potential, and attitudes toward terrorism

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 373-382

  Fischer, Peter ^a   Greitemeyer, Tobias ^a   Kastenmüller, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggression; Christians; Muslims; Religious identification; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34347401507     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430207078697     Document Type: Article

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