Improving intergroup relationships within and outside the contact situation: The role of common ingroup identity and emotions of empathy and anxiety

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 17-36

  Capozza, Dora ^a   Vezzali, Loris ^b   Trifiletti, Elena ^a   Falvo, Rossella ^a   Favara, Irene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Common ingroup identity; Contact hypothesis; Intergroup anxiety; Intergroup empathy; Members to group generalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650216872     PISSN: 19726325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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