With a Little Help From My Cross-Group Friend: Reducing Anxiety in Intergroup Contexts Through Cross-Group Friendship

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1080-1094

  Page Gould, Elizabeth ^a   Mendoza Denton, Rodolfo ^a   Tropp, Linda R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

close relationships; cross group friendship; intergroup anxiety; intergroup contact; intergroup relations

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ANXIETY; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BLOOD; CAUCASIAN; FRIEND; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

ANXIETY; AROUSAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FRIENDS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIVIDUALITY; PREJUDICE; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STUDENTS;

EID: 56349165562     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.95.5.1080     Document Type: Article

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