Valuable therefore not threatening: The influence of diversity beliefs on discrimination against immigrants

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 714-721

  Kauff, Mathias ^a   Wagner, Ulrich ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

discrimination; diversity beliefs; immigration; intergroup threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867736172     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550611435942     Document Type: Article

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