The Failure of Imagined Contact in Reducing Explicit and Implicit Out-Group Prejudice Toward Male Homosexuals

Current Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 261-274

  Dermody, Nadene ^a   Jones, Mairwen K ^a   Cumming, Steve R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact; Implicit attitudes; Male homosexuals; Outgroup derogation; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884411229     PISSN: 10461310     EISSN: 19364733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12144-013-9182-5     Document Type: Article

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