Consequences of the 2008 financial crisis for intergroup relations: The role of perceived threat and causal attributions

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 871-885

  Becker, Julia C ^a   Wagner, Ulrich ^a   Christ, Oliver ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

anti Semitism; causal attributions; financial crisis; prejudice; threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054679853     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430211407643     Document Type: Article

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