Intergroup friendships on campus: Predicting close and casual friendships between White and African American first-year college students

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 585-602

  Schofield, Janet Ward ^a   Hausmann, Leslie R M ^b   Ye, Feifei ^c   Woods, Rochelle L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

contact theory; intergroup friendships

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956836742     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210362437     Document Type: Article

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