Refusing intergroup help from the morally superior: How one group's moral superiority leads to another group's reluctance to seek their help

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 420-423

  Täuber, Susanne ^a   van Zomeren, Martijn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Disadvantaged groups; Intergroup help seeking; Moral group status; Moral threats; Status improvement; Strategic responses

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655181805     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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