How the disadvantaged appraise group-based exclusion: The path from legitimacy to illegitimacy

European Review of Social Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 194-224

  Jetten, Jolanda ^a   Iyer, Aarti ^a   Branscombe, Nyla R ^b   Zhang, Airong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective responses; Disadvantaged group membership; Group based exclusion; Legitimacy; Social identity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896480147     PISSN: 10463283     EISSN: 1479277X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10463283.2013.840977     Document Type: Article

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