Ingroup norms, intergroup contact and intergroup anxiety as predictors of the outgroup attitudes of majority and minority youth

International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 346-355

  Jasinskaja Lahti, Inga ^a   Mähönen, Tuuli Anna ^a   Liebkind, Karmela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Contact hypothesis; Group status; Outgroup attitudes; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955891591     PISSN: 01471767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijintrel.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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