Awareness of Intergroup Help Can Rehumanize the Out-Group

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 551-558

  Saguy, Tamar ^a   Szekeres, Hanna ^a   Nouri, Rikki ^a   Goldenberg, Amit ^b   Doron, Guy ^a   Dovidio, John F ^c   Yunger, Chaim ^a   Halperin, Eran ^a  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dehumanization; intergroup conflict; intergroup help; rehumanization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930424066     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550615574748     Document Type: Article

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