Group identification under conditions of threat: College students' attachment to country, family, ethnicity, religion, and university before and after September 11, 2001

Political Psychology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 77-97

  Moskalenko, Sophia ^a   McCauley, Clark ^b   Rozin, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

9 11; Group identification; Ingroup cohesion; Multiple identities; Outgroup threat

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047694260     PISSN: 0162895X     EISSN: 14679221     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9221.2006.00450.x     Document Type: Review

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