Extended contact effects as a function of closeness of relationship with ingroup contacts

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 239-254

  Tausch, Nicole ^a   Hewstone, Miles ^b   Schmid, Katharina ^b   Hughes, Joanne ^c   Cairns, Ed ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

closeness; extended contact; Inclusion of the Other in the Self; Northern Ireland; outgroup trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953245444     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210390534     Document Type: Article

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