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Publication details [#53566]

Florack, Arnd and Jakub Samochowiec. 2010. Intercultural contact under uncertainty: The impact of predictability and anxiety on the willingness to interact with a member from an unknown cultural group. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 34 (5) : 507–515.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

affect | emotion | intercultural communication | intergroup communication | uncertainty

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study uses Gudykunst's anxiety/uncertainty management theory (2005), to state that an individual's willingness to interact with a member of a foreign culture depends on the individual's incidental affective state (anxiety) and the potential interaction partner's predictability.