Enhancing the imagined contact effect

Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 113-116

  Husnu, Senel ^a   Crisp, Richard John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

imagined contact; intergroup contact; prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651338784     PISSN: 00224545     EISSN: 19401183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224541003599043     Document Type: Article

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