Promoting intergroup contact by changing beliefs: Group malleability, intergroup anxiety, and contact motivation

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1192-1195

  Halperin, Eran ^a   Crisp, Richard J ^b   Husnu, Shenel ^c   Trzesniewski, Kali H ^d   Dweck, Carol S ^e   Gross, James J ^e  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group malleability; Intergroup anxiety; Intergroup contact

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROUP DYNAMICS; GROUP STRUCTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; SOCIAL BELIEF; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ATTITUDE; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CYPRUS; FEMALE; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874410520     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0028620     Document Type: Article

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