Cooperation makes it happen: Imagined intergroup cooperation enhances the positive effects of imagined contact

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 635-647

  Kuchenbrandt, Dieta ^a   Eyssel, Friederike ^a   Seidel, Sarah Katharina ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

cooperation; empathy; imagined intergroup contact; prejudice reduction; trust

Indexed keywords

EID: 84882951927     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430212470172     Document Type: Article

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