Behavioural consequences of imagining intergroup contact with stigmatized outgroups

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 193-202

  Turner, Rhiannon N ^a   West, Keon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

imagined contact; outgroup behaviour; reducing prejudice; social distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857558385     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430211418699     Document Type: Article

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