Attributional processes underlying imagined contact effects

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 275-287

  Crisp, Richard J ^a   Husnu, Shenel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

attribution; imagined contact; intergroup contact; prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953248052     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210390721     Document Type: Article

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