Intergroup contact facilitates physiological recovery following stressful intergroup interactions [PDF]
A growing body of research has demonstrated the importance of intergroup contact in reducing fear, threat and anxiety in intergroup domains. Here we focus on the regulatory benefits of intergroup contact. We hypothesized that past intergroup contact would facilitate recovery from a stressful intergroup evaluation. White and Black participants completed
Page-Gould, Elizabeth +2 more
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Intergroup Contact Is Associated with Less Negative Attitude toward Women Managers: The Bolstering Effect of Social Dominance Orientation [PDF]
This cross-sectional study examined the intergroup contact hypothesis in the workplace by enrolling 150 Italian employees. Within the framework of social dominance theory, the purpose of this study was to test the assumption that individuals with higher ...
Federico Contu +2 more
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Investigating the relationship between intergroup physical contact and attitudes towards foreigners: the mediating role of quality of intergroup contact [PDF]
Recent research has shown that a brief, casual touch administered by an outgroup member reduces prejudice towards the group to which the toucher belongs.
Soraya E. Shamloo +2 more
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Getting connected: Intergroup contact on Facebook. [PDF]
One correlational study examined whether virtual contact via Facebook is positively related to intergroup relations. The followers of two online campaigns from Iran and Israel-whose countries have been in a politically hostile relationship since the 1980s-indicated the amount of direct and indirect virtual (Facebook) and real-life outgroup contact they
Schwab AK, Sagioglou C, Greitemeyer T.
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Similarity enhances psychological compatibility: Serial mediation effect of psychological kinship and intergroup contact [PDF]
Purpose: This study elucidates the relationship between similarity and ethnic psychological compatibility and its underlying psychological mechanisms.
Jiani He +4 more
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‘When Theories Meet’: Approaching Intergroup Contact from a Self- Determination Theory Perspective
Intergroup contact theory provides a useful framework for effective interventions to improve intergroup relationship; however, disharmony between various social groups perseveres.
Johanna Böttcher, Maria-Therese Friehs
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Intergroup contact and intergroup conflict. [PDF]
University of UlsterIntergroup contact theory is enjoying a renaissance; positive contact does reduceintergroup prejudice, but intergroup contact has generally been studied in relativelybenign settings. With a number of countries either still experiencing or having justemerged from periods of pervasive intergroup animosity, contact theory is, nowadays ...
M. Hewstone +6 more
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The current study examined social networking sites, specifically Twitter and Facebook, as spaces for intergroup communication and contact between members of two national groups, Germans and Greeks, during the turbulent times of the Greek economic crisis.
Kioumi Eleni, Gardikiotis Antonis
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Previous studies had shown the benefits of extended intergroup contact for outgroup attitude, mainly when direct intergroup contact is blocked. However, there have not studies that attempt to directly compare the role of extended contact in outgroup ...
Whinda Yustisia, Joevarian Hudijana
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Vicarious intergroup contact effects [PDF]
This contribution examines the role of vicarious contact (observing in-group members having successful cross-group contact) as a tool to improve intergroup relations. Expanding previous research on indirect intergroup contact, vicarious contact (1) integrates and applies concepts of social-cognitive theory ( Bandura, 1986 ) to the field of intergroup ...
Mazziotta, Agostino +2 more
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