Cross-group friendships, social dominance orientation and secondary transfer effect

TPM - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 181-194

  Vezzali, Loris ^a,b   Giovannini, Dino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Educazione e Scienze Umane   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cross group friendship; Intergroup contact; Intergroup relations; Perspective taking; Social dominance orientation (SDO)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878788064     PISSN: 19726325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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