Justifying discrimination against Muslim immigrants: Out-group ideology and the five-step social identity model

British Journal of Social Psychology

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 345-360

  Verkuyten, Maykel ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ETHICS; GROUP PROCESS; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RELIGION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; GROUP PROCESSES; HUMANS; ISLAM; MOTIVATION; NETHERLANDS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 84878665477     PISSN: 01446665     EISSN: 20448309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2011.02081.x     Document Type: Article

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