Imagined intergroup contact promotes cooperation through outgroup trust

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 209-216

  Pagotto, Lisa ^a   Visintin, Emilio Paolo ^a   de Iorio, Giulia ^a   Voci, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

cooperation; group salience; imagined contact; outgroup trust; prejudice reduction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874492289     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430212450057     Document Type: Article

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