Imagining intergroup contact reduces implicit prejudice

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 129-142

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; IMAGINATION; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIGION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; ISLAM; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77950253512     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/014466609X419901     Document Type: Article

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