Does Contact Reduce Prejudice or Does Prejudice Reduce Contact? A Longitudinal Test of the Contact Hypothesis Among Majority and Minority Groups in Three European Countries

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 843-856

  Binder, Jens ^a   Zagefka, Hanna ^b   Brown, Rupert ^a   Funke, Friedrich ^c   Kessler, Thomas ^c   Mummendey, Amelie ^c   Maquil, Annemie ^d   Demoulin, Stephanie ^d   Leyens, Jacques Philippe ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

contact hypothesis; ethnic minorities; intergroup anxiety; longitudinal mediation; longitudinal moderation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; EMOTION; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MINORITY GROUP; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY; BELGIUM; EMOTIONS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 65349102882     PISSN: 00223514     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013470     Document Type: Article

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