Addressing replicability concerns via adversarial collaboration: Discovering hidden moderators of the minimal intergroup discrimination effect

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

Volumn 78, Issue , 2018, Pages 66-76

  Kerr, Norbert L ^a,b   Ao, Xiang ^b   Hogg, Michael A ^b   Zhang, Jinghui ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adversarial collaboration; Ingroup favoritism; Minimal groups; Replication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERGROUP BIAS; MALE; REWARD; SELF ESTEEM; XENOPHOBIA;

EID: 85048464946     PISSN: 00221031     EISSN: 10960465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.05.001     Document Type: Article

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