Enhancing moral virtues: Increased perceived outgroup morality as a mediator of intergroup contact effects

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 648-657

  Brambilla, Marco ^a   Hewstone, Miles ^b   Colucci, Francesco Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

competence; intergroup contact; morality; stereotype content; warmth

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883012359     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430212471737     Document Type: Article

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