Improving Intergroup Relations Through Online Contact
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021 This study examined an online professional development program designed to support meaningful acquaintance and reduce stereotypes and prejudices among teachers from different cultures in Israeli society.
Meital Amzalag, Noa Shapira
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What makes a young assertive bystander? The effect of intergroup contact, empathy, cultural openness, and in-Group bias on assertive bystander intervention intentions. [PDF]
, 2014 The present research tests the indirect effects of intergroup contact on adolescents’ bystander intervention intentions via four potential mediators: “empathy,” “cultural openness,” “in-group bias,” and “intergroup anxiety.” British adolescents (N = 855),
Abbott, N +7 more
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“Nudging” intergroup contact: Normative social influences on intergroup contact engagement [PDF]
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2021 Much research has shown that intergroup contact is associated with a reduction in prejudice. Far less attention has been paid to the conditions that promote intergroup contact. This research explored the role of normative social influence in predicting contact engagement (total N = 1,538).
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Reducing aggressive intergroup action tendencies: effects of intergroup contact via perceived intergroup threat. [PDF]
, 2014 Two studies tested the prediction that more positive intergroup contact would be associated with reduced aggressive intergroup action tendencies, an effect predicted to occur indirectly via reduced intergroup threat perceptions, and over and above well ...
Hewstone, Miles +15 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Based on two cross-sectional probability samples (Study 1: N = 1,382, Study 2: N = 1,587), we studied the interplay between positive and negative intergroup contact, different types of intergroup emotions (i.e., episodic intergroup emotions encountered ...
Mathias Kauff +6 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]
PeerJ, 2018 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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Intergroup Contact as an Agent of Cognitive Liberalization [PDF]
Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2018 Intergroup contact is widely recognized as one of the most validated methods of improving attitudes toward out-groups. Yet what is intergroup contact “good for” beyond this function? To answer this question we take a panoramic view of the literature, beginning with the recognition that contact is multifaceted in both form (e.g., face-to-face, indirect,
Hodson, G. +3 more
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Intergroup contact buffers against the intergenerational transmission of authoritarianism and racial prejudice [PDF]
, 2012 The present study focused on the buffering role of positive intergroup contact in the intergenerational transmission of authoritarianism and racial prejudice in a sample of adolescents and one of their parents.
Van Hiel, Alain +3 more
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Changing the ideological roots of prejudice: Longitudinal effects of ethnic intergroup contact on social dominance orientation [PDF]
, 2014 Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) has been reported to be strongly related to a multitude of intergroup phenomena, but little is known about situational experiences that may influence SDO.
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Child’s Presence Shapes Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Everyday Intergroup Contact
Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2022 Research on intergroup contact has considered how the occurrence and experience of contact is affected by ingroup members. Qualitative studies of contact in real-life settings have additionally highlighted how multiple actors can affect the manifestation
Paula Paajanen +3 more
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