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Jun 2010
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Social psychological aspects of religion...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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Professor Miles Hewstone (Oxford) gives a talk entitled Social psychological aspects of religion and prejudice: evidence from experimental and survey research. The commentator is Professor Ingmar Persson (Gothenburg University). 
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