Improving intergroup relations through direct, extended and other forms of indirect contact

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 147-160

  Dovidio, John F ^a   Eller, Anja ^b   Hewstone, Miles ^c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bias; contact theory; extended contact; imagined contact; intergroup contact; intergroup relations; prejudice reduction; vicarious contact

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953234805     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210390555     Document Type: Article

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