On helping lower status out-groups: The nature of the help and the stability of the intergroup status hierarchy

Asian Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 258-264

  Cunningham, Emily ^a   Platow, Michael J ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intergroup helping; Realistic intergroup conflict; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 35649010929     PISSN: 13672223     EISSN: 1467839X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-839X.2007.00234.x     Document Type: Article

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