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Publication details [#57840]

Dunne, Ciarán. 2013. Exploring motivations for intercultural contact among host country university students: An Irish case study. International Journal of Intercultural Relations 37 (5) : 567–578.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

emotion | intercultural communication | motivation | social interaction | university

Language as a subject

Irish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

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Annotation

This paper proves that (Irish) university host students’ decision to voluntarily engage in intercultural contact is mainly based on perceived contact profit; less frequent motivations appear to be regard for others and the thought of a shared future.