Social and Political Context Effects on Intergroup Contact and Intergroup Attitudes

Improving Intergroup Relations: Building on the Legacy of Thomas F. Pettigrew

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 195-209

  Wagner, Ulrich ^a   Christ, Oliver ^a   Wolf, Hinna ^a   Van Dick, Rolf ^b   Stellmacher, Jost ^a   Schlüter, Elmar ^a   Zick, Andreas ^c  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cooperative education programs levels of economic and material support; Ethnic minority proportion in country and ethnic prejudice; Intergroup contact and threat; Minority proportion, contact and prejudice; Social and political context

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889322882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303117.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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