Diminishing Vertical Distance: Power and Social Status as Barriers to Intergroup Reconciliation

The Social Psychology of Intergroup Reconciliation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Harris, Lasana T ^a   Fiske, Susan T ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intergroup relations; Out group; Power; Reconciliation; Residual negative affect; Social status; Vertical distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920405491     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300314.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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