Increasing outgroup trust, reducing infrahumanization, and enhancing future contact intentions via imagined intergroup contact

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 437-440

  Vezzali, Loris ^a   Capozza, Dora ^b   Stathi, Sofia ^c   Giovannini, Dino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imagined intergroup contact; Indirect contact; Infrahumanization; Intergroup behavioral intentions; Intergroup relations; Outgroup trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655173797     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.09.008     Document Type: Article

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