Elaboration enhances the imagined contact effect

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 943-950

  Husnu, Senel ^a   Crisp, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imagined contact; Intergroup bias; Intergroup contact; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956613158     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2010.05.014     Document Type: Article

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