Perceived importance of contact revisited: Anticipated consequences of intergroup contact for the ingroup as predictors of the explicit and implicit ethnic attitudes of youth

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 19-30

  Mähänen, Tuuli A ^a   Jasinskaja Lahti, Inga ^a   Liebkind, Karmela ^a   Finell, Eerika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

adolescents; ethnic attitudes; perceived importance of contact

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650730187     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210378300     Document Type: Article

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