When does national identification lead to the rejection of immigrants? Cross-sectional and longitudinal evidence for the role of essentialist in-group definitions

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-76

  Pehrson, Samuel ^a   Brown, Rupert ^a   Zagefka, Hanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REFUGEE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCULTURATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; ENGLAND; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PREJUDICE; REFUGEES; REJECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 64749093913     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466608X288827     Document Type: Article

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