Love thine enemy? evidence that (ir)religious identification can promote outgroup tolerance under threat

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105-117

  Ysseldyk, Renate ^a,b   Haslam, S Alexander ^b   Matheson, Kimberly ^a   Anisman, Hymie ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

atheism; identity; religion; threat; tolerance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855401157     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430211410996     Document Type: Article

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