Does Intercultural Contact Increase Anti-Racist Behavior on Social Network Sites?
Empirical attention on online intercultural contact and prejudice reduction are increasing. Nevertheless, still little is known on processes that could influence the contact–prejudice relation as well as the relation between online contact and anti ...
Chiara Imperato +2 more
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Improving refugee well-being with better language skills and more intergroup contact [PDF]
The effects of intergroup contact on prejudice are well established. However, its effects on minority group well-being have been rarely studied. We hypothesised that contact with members of the majority culture will be related to better well-being, and ...
Brown, Rupert +4 more
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Two experiments investigated the role of intragroup communication in intergroup conflict (de-)escalation. Experiment 1 examined the effects of intragroup communication (vs. individual thought) and anticipated face-to-face intergroup contact (vs.
Hedy Greijdanus +3 more
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Perspective-taking (PT) is an important ability to imagine the world from another’s point of view. Prior studies have shown that younger adults are more likely to consider the opinions of age-based in-group members relative to out-group members. However,
Yanxi Long +7 more
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Contact, Political Solidarity and Collective Action: An Indian Case Study of Relations between Historically Disadvantaged Communities [PDF]
Research on the contact hypothesis has highlighted the role of contact in improving intergroup relations. Most of this research has addressed the problem of transforming the prejudices of historically advantaged communities, thereby eroding wider ...
Allport +36 more
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Exploring the future: introduction of a new paradigm to examine intergroup experiences
Intergroup contact theory, as one of the most established research strands in social psychology, has mostly relied on overall measured averages of intergroup contact over larger time spans.
Sarina J. Schäfer
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The double-edged effect of intergroup similarity: Muslim and Christian immigrants’ acculturation preferences on intergroup relations in Sweden [PDF]
A 2x2x2 experiment examined effects of the acculturation orientations seen to be endorsed by immigrants (of two different religions) on intergroup relations in Sweden. Swedish majority participants (N = 448) read interviews with Iraqi immigrants in which
Camilla Matera +7 more
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Intergroup Relations in Integrated Schools: A Glimpse Inside Interdistrict Magnet Schools
The frequency and quality of intergroup contact within racially and ethnically diverse schools has potentially important implications for the achievement of desegregation goals.
Robert Bifulco +2 more
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Changing children’s intergroup attitudes towards refugees: Testing different models of extended contact [PDF]
The present research evaluated an intervention, derived from the "extended contact hypothesis," which aimed to change children's intergroup attitudes toward refugees. The study (n=253) tested 3 models of extended contact among 5- to 11-year-old children:
Brown, Rupert +3 more
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Intimate intergroup contact across the lifespan [PDF]
AbstractIntergroup contact can be as casual as members of different groups walking past one another on the street or as intimate as developing cross‐group friendships or romantic relationships. To date, however, the majority of intergroup contact research has focused on examining the effects of contact through self‐report measures of interactions and ...
Marco Marinucci +6 more
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