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Intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: A longitudinal study

Brown, Rupert, Eller, Anja, Leeds, Sarah, Stace, Kim (2007) Intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes: A longitudinal study. European Journal of Social Psychology, 37 (4). pp. 692-703. ISSN 0046-2772. (doi:10.1002/ejsp.384) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:2505)

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Abstract

A longitudinal study (N = 109) of interschool contact and attitudes was conducted to test Allport's (1954) Contact Hypothesis and Brown and Hewstone's (2005) addendum to it on the moderating role of typicality in the contact-attitude relationship. Three different measures of intergroup attitude were employed, including a new measure of infrahumanisation (Leyens et al., 2000). Support for the hypotheses wasfound on all three measures in the longitudinal analyses. Quantity of contact with a member of the outgroup was consistently associated with more favourable attitudes towards the outgroup as a whole. Importantly, contact wasfound to predict attitude but the reverse causal path was not significant. Also, on one measure there was an indication that the effects of contact quality were more beneficial when the contact persons were seen as typical of the outgroup than when they were not. It is concluded that, as originally hypothesised by Allport, contact with members of an outgroup can improve intergroup attitudes, but especially if those people can be seen as representative of their group.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1002/ejsp.384
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Depositing User: Suzanne Duffy
Date Deposited: 31 Mar 2008 13:13 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:41 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/2505 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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