Rejection of Self or Others? Majority-Minority Status Moderates Responses to Strongly Identified Members of the Out-group

Self and Identity

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 548-562

  Christensen, P Niels ^a   Kerper, Sarah ^a  

^a RADFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnic identification; Group attraction; Majority; Minority; Self esteem

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882603577     PISSN: 15298868     EISSN: 15298876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15298868.2012.705959     Document Type: Article

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