Teaching and learning guide for: Imagined intergroup contact: Theory, paradigm, and practice [PDF]
A goal shared enthusiastically amongst many social psychologists is the improvement of intergroup relations. Conflict between groups is usually related to distinct, and in many cases opposing, identities, based on (for example) ethnicity, nationality ...
Crisp, Richard J., Stathi, Sofia
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Confidence in Contact: A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents [PDF]
Intergroup contact theory (Allport, 1954) proposes that positive interactions between members of different social groups can improve intergroup relations.
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Testing the limits of tolerance: How inter-group anxiety amplifies negative and offensive responses to out-group-initiated contact [PDF]
Three studies examine the amplifying effects of intergroup anxiety on individuals ’ negative and offensive responses to out-group-initiated contact. Because intergroup anxiety typically results in avoidance of the initiation of intergroup contact, we ...
Agneta H. Fischer +8 more
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The authors use the Stereotype Content Model to consider the relationship between positive and negative intergroup contact and personal and cultural ethnic stereotypes. The introduction poses the theoretical foundations through defining acculturation and
Dmitry Sergeevich Grigoryev +1 more
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Direct contact and authoritarianism as moderators between extended contact and reduced prejudice: Lower threat and greater trust as mediators [PDF]
Using a representative sample of Dutch adults (N = 1238), we investigated the moderating influence of direct contact and authoritarianism on the potential of extended contact to reduce prejudice. As expected, direct contact and authoritarianism moderated
Aiken L. S. +7 more
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Intergroup contact and the mediating role of intergroup trust on outgroup evaluation and future contact intentions in Cyprus and Northern Ireland [PDF]
It is well supported that intergroup contact reduces prejudice and that positive contact can increase trust and improve attitudes between groups in conflict.
McKeown, Shelley, Psaltis, Charis
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Imagining Intergroup Contact Can Improve Intergroup Attitudes [PDF]
We investigated whether simply imagining contact with outgroup members can improve intergroup attitudes. In Experiment 1, young participants who imagined talking to an elderly person subsequently showed lower levels of intergroup bias than participants who imagined an outdoor scene.
Turner, Rhiannon +2 more
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To know you is to love you:Effects of intergroup contact and knowledge on intergroup anxiety and prejudice among Indigenous Chileans [PDF]
Two surveys were conducted in Chile with indigenous Mapuche participants (N study 1: 573; N study 2: 198). In line with previous theorising, it was predicted that intergroup contact with the non-indigenous majority reduces prejudice. It was expected that
Allport +29 more
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Does intergroup contact predict personality? A longitudinal study on the bidirectional relationship between intergroup contact and personality traits [PDF]
We conducted a longitudinal study to test whether, in addition to being predicted by personality, intergroup contact is longitudinally associated with personality traits.
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Examining the role of positive and negative intergroup contact and anti-immigrant prejudice in Brexit [PDF]
This study examined the interplay of anti-immigrant prejudice and intergroup contact experience on voting intentions within Britain’s 2016 referendum on its membership within the European Union.
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