Deprovincialization: Social Identity Complexity and Outgroup Acceptance

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 160-176

  Brewer, Marilynn B ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antecedents of social identity complexity; Cognitive consequences of crossed categorization and decategorization mechanism; Extended "extended contact"; Logic of deprovincialization; Objective versus subjective complexity; Possible paths from multiple identities to outgroup acceptance; Social identity complexity; Social identity complexity and intergroup contact; Social identity complexity and tolerance

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EID: 84889406975     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444303117.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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