See Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Social Identity and Identity Threat Shape the Representation of Physical Distance

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 959-972

  Xiao, Y Jenny ^a   van Bavel, Jay J ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

distance; perception; social categorization; social identity; threat

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEAR; FEMALE; FRIEND; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEXICO; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEAR; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEXICO; MOTIVATION; NEW YORK; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84862007086     PISSN: 01461672     EISSN: 15527433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0146167212442228     Document Type: Article

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