Extending Contact Across Generations: Comparison of Direct and Ancestral Intergroup Contact Effects on Current Attitudes Toward Outgroup Members

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 481-491

  Stasiuk, Katarzyna ^a   Bilewicz, Michal ^b  

^a MARIA CURIE SK ODOWSKA UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Ancestral contact; Contact hypothesis; Extended contact; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885835039     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: 10991298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.2147     Document Type: Article

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