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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Intergroup anxiety"”.
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Developing an Intergroup Anxiety toward Muslims Scale
Understanding intergroup relations and the anxiety that can result has become increasingly relevant to interactions between Muslim and non-Muslim individuals due to current tensions between Islamic groups and many Western nations (e.g., acts of terrorism in Madrid and London, the U.S. War on …
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Intergroup Anxiety and Attitudes toward Muslims: The Effects of Religious Identity Salience and Message Politeness Strategies
Guided by intergroup contact theory, social identity theory, and politeness theory, this experimental study examined the effects of the target’s Muslim religious identity salience (high and low) and message politeness strategies (direct and indirect) on non-Muslim American participants’ (N = 413) …
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Contact, Disclosure, Stereotypes, and Attitudes Toward People with Physical Disabilities: The Mediator Effects of Intergroup Anxiety and Social Support
Guided by intergroup contact theory (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew, 1998), the current study examined the influences of perceptions of individuals without disabilities (N = 189) regarding their communication experiences with the most frequent contact with an invisible physical disability on willingness …
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Reaching resistant trainees: creating effective diversity training through integrating perspective taking and media
… effect of perspective taking on racial bias and intergroup anxiety will be enhanced by a media contact video condition, and this integration of training methods will be particularly beneficial for high SDO individuals. This hypothesis was largely unsupported, as integrating perspective taking and …
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Racial integration : a social intervention on a South African university campus
… accepted proposition that contact improves intergroup attitudes, with stronger effects in settings that reflect optimal conditions of contact. Investigators have long been interested in the effects of contact in South Africa where, until twenty years ago, intergroup contact had been formally …
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Intergroup Contact and Housing Selection of United States Study Abroad Students
… beyond understanding the relationship between intergroup contact and prejudice reduction (Zuma, 2014). The contact hypothesis has also been used to understand the relationship between intergroup contact and intercultural attitudes and cross-group friendships (Tawagi & Mak, 2014). This research …
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Attitudes Toward Immigrants as a Function of National Identity Distinctiveness Threat and Imagined Contact
<p>As immigration rises, frequent and positive intergroup interactions with immigrants are increasingly necessary to ensure smooth and harmonious societal and community functioning. However, immigrants are often perceived to threaten the host population’s distinctive national group identity, …
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Interprofessional Education between Medical and Pharmacy Students: A Study of What and How Pre-registration Medical and Pharmacy Students Learn With, From and About Each Other in a Classroom Based Interprofessional Environment
… and this study is original in its application of intergroup anxiety theory to explore how these factors may affect learning processes in IPE between medical and pharmacy students.
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Combatting Anti-Indigenous Prejudice Through Imagined Contact: A Mixed-Methods Investigation
… measuring modern and old-fashioned prejudice, intergroup anxiety, perceptions of outgroup variability, and their support for an Indigenous-related petition. Participants also had an opportunity to sign this ostensibly real petition, providing a more behavioural measure of their support for this …
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Subliminal Exposure to Empathy Primes: A New Method to Reduce Intergroup Bias?
… has demonstrated the benefits of empathy for intergroup relations (e.g., Batson, Chang, Orr, & Rowland, 2002). In addition, empathy has been identified as the mechanism by which various successful prejudice-reduction procedures impact attitudes and behaviour (e.g., Costello & Hodson, 2010). …
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Social contact, prejudice, within-group variability, and the own-group recognition bias
… contact patterns, prejudice, interaction anxiety and visual strategies in the context of the OGRB. To this end, I first created and tested scales to measure aspects of social contact, and prejudice towards North-African individuals. The social contact investigation was of three major …
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Social contact, prejudice, within-group variability, and the own-group recognition bias
… contact patterns, prejudice, interaction anxiety and visual strategies in the context of the OGRB. To this end, I first created and tested scales to measure aspects of social contact, and prejudice towards North-African individuals. The social contact investigation was of three major …