Publications

Publication details [#56614]

Bastian, Brock, Abe Ata and Dean Lusher. 2012. Contact, evaluation and social distance: Differentiating majority and minority effects. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 36 (1) : 100–107.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

evaluation | intergroup communication | majority language | minority language | social distance

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

The results of an alternate model for impact comprehension of majority-minority group contact argues that diminished social distance rather than enhanced outgroup assessments may be more valuable in understanding how minority groups react on contact.