Changing stereotype content through mental imagery: Imagining intergroup contact promotes stereotype change

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 305-315

  Brambilla, Marco ^a   Ravenna, Marcella ^b   Hewstone, Miles ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competence; Imagined contact; Intergroup contact; Stereotype content model; Warmth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859575104     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430211427574     Document Type: Article

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