Extended contact effects: Is exposure to positive outgroup exemplars sufficient or is interaction with ingroup members necessary?

Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 737-753

  Cernat, Vasile ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

Author keywords

extended contact; group emotions; intergroup anxiety; prejudice; Roma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; EMOTION; FEMALE; FRIEND; GIPSY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REINFORCEMENT; ROMANIA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; BULGARIA; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FRIENDS; GYPSIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PREJUDICE; REINFORCEMENT, SOCIAL; ROMANIA; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; STEREOTYPING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80054958425     PISSN: 00224545     EISSN: 19401183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00224545.2010.522622     Document Type: Article

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