Moving toward or away from a group identity: Different strategies for coping with pervasive discrimination

The Social Cure: Identity, Health and Well-Being

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 115-131

  Branscombe, Nyla R ^a   Fernández, Saulo ^b   Gómez, Angel ^b   Cronin, Tracey ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE EDUCACIÓN A DISTANCIA   (Spain)

^c CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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