Imagining intergroup contact is more cognitively difficult for people higher in intergroup anxiety but this does not detract from its effectiveness

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 744-761

  Birtel, Michèle D ^a   Crisp, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

imagined contact; intergroup anxiety; intergroup contact; prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868140079     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430212443867     Document Type: Article

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