A meta-analytic test of the imagined contact hypothesis

Group Processes and Intergroup Relations

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-26

  Miles, Eleanor ^a   Crisp, Richard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Imagined contact; Intergroup contact; Mental simulation; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897366661     PISSN: 13684302     EISSN: 14617188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1368430213510573     Document Type: Article

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