Friendship trumps ethnicity (but not sexual orientation): Comfort and discomfort in inter-group interactions

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 273-289

  Cook, Jonathan E ^a,b   Calcagno, Justine E ^a,c   Arrow, Holly ^a   Malle, Bertram F ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CAUCASIAN; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATTITUDE; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FRIENDS; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; OREGON; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862263158     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: 20448309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02051.x     Document Type: Article

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