The other side of we: When outgroup members express common identity

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1613-1626

  Gómez, Ángel ^a   Dovidio, John F ^b   Huici, Carmen ^a   Gaertner, Samuel L ^c   Cuadrado, Isabel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Common ingroup identity; Intergroup relations; Metaperceptions; Prejudice; Social identity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; PEER GROUP; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STUDENT;

HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; PREJUDICE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STUDENTS;

EID: 57249084861     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208323600     Document Type: Article

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