Can Imagined Interactions Produce Positive Perceptions? Reducing Prejudice Through Simulated Social Contact

American Psychologist

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 231-240

  Crisp, Richard J ^a   Turner, Rhiannon N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

imagined contact; intergroup contact; prejudice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGINATION; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STEREOTYPING;

EID: 67049142680     PISSN: 0003066X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014718     Document Type: Article

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