Exploring the self-directed anger of the stigmatized: The interplay between perceived legitimacy and social identification

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 807-818

  Hansen, Nina ^a   Sassenberg, Kai ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

differentiation; legitimizing beliefs; perceived legitimacy; self and other directed anger; social discrimination; social identification

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054690522     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430210392933     Document Type: Article

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