Negative intergroup contact makes group memberships salient: Explaining why intergroup conflict endures

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1723-1738

  Paolini, Stefania ^a   Harwood, Jake ^b   Rubin, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

category salience; intergroup contact; intergroup relations; prejudice; quality of contact; self categorization theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649267467     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167210388667     Document Type: Article

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