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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"contact theory"”.
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Extending Intergroup Contact Theory to Men’s Anti-Women Biases
… to exploit women drawing on intergroup contact theory. In a correlational investigation (Study 2; n = 229), we find that perceived negative experiences with women predict greater anti-women bias via greater anger toward women. We then confirm this pattern of results using an experimental …
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Institutional Trust and Interpersonal Interaction: A Contact Theory Approach
… directly addresses this gap by employing the Contact Hypothesis—a concept derived from the field of cognitive psychology—as a theoretical framework for interpreting interpersonal interactions between citizens and government representatives at the local level of government. It employs an …
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The Student Police Unity League and Intergroup Contact Theory
… by the core tenants provided by Intergroup Contact Theory. It was expected that black students who participated in the Student Police Unity League would report higher levels of trust, legitimacy, willingness to work with the police, outcome justice, and lower level of perceived racial …
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Intergroup contact theory and global perspective in students who study abroad
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An exploration of the experiences of expatriates and their accompanying spouses in terms of contact theory and intercultural competence
… very different experiences in terms of their contacts with the host culture. The employee moves into an organizational environment with a specific role and objectives. In contrast, the accompanying spouse may find him- or herself in an entirely different role.</p> <p>This study explored …
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Gender Bias in Engineering: Does More Contact with Female Engineers Reduce Bias?
Status Characteristics Theory and Contact Theory are tested to measure gender bias in engineering students, and to determine if contact with female engineers helps reduce gender bias. To assess this, two versions of a resume, one with a female's name and one with a male's name, were given to senior …
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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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Racial integration : a social intervention on a South African university campus
Gordon Allport's contact theory has given rise to the widely 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 …
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Shared Education in Northern Ireland: A Qualitative Study of Intergroup Contact
… explores students’ experiences of intergroup contact in two cross- community shared education projects in Northern Ireland. A recent innovation, shared education involves collaboration between separate schools to deliver joint classes and activities. A core aim of this collaboration is to …
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Residual stresses due to grinding
… thermal stresses. An extension of the Hertzian contact theory yields mechanical stresses, which are then superimposed on the thermal stresses. Approximate plasticity corrections are used to approximate the deformation as the grinding wheel passes over the workpiece. Subsurface results are …
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International Education as a Conduit for Engagement between Countries: The Case of Saudi Students in New Zealand
… uses a mixed methods approach informed by contact theory, which includes a survey questionnaire and interviews with Saudi students, interviews with appropriate Saudi and New Zealand officials working in their respective Ministries, informal discussions with New Zealand homestays, and …
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Mathematical modeling of rail gun
… governing equations, along with exploiting the contact theory between flat surfaces. A parametric analysis in the vicinity of the standard deviation of the normalized distance between the references planes of the rough surfaces was made for a variety of materials and textures at the interfaces. …
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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
… Pedagogy (CSP) (Paris, 2012), Intergroup Contact Theory (Allport 1954), and Social Constructivism (Smagorinsky, 2007) to evaluate how 7<sup>th</sup> grade students at a Title I middle school in the Southeastern United States experience the phenomenon of peer relationships in the context of …
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Factors Related to the Racial Socialization of Asian American Children
… the United States. Based on Allport's Intergroup Contact theory, increased intergroup contact with other racial groups should explain the relationship between parents' racial attitudes and their knowledge of Asian American racial reality and racial socialization practices.</p>
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The Captivity of Opportunity: The Conversation Surrounding Church-Going Hispanic Immigrants
… of living in the United States. Guided grounded theory data analysis revealed three categories and 14 subcategories, or themes of conversation, surrounding this hot topic. Participants shed light on the distinctive challenges they faced, how these challenges affected them, and how they attempted …
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Investigation on Physics-based Multi-scale Modeling of Contact, Friction, and Wear in Viscoelastic Materials with Application in Rubber Compounds
… and modeling of tribological phenomena of contact, friction, and wear in viscoelastic materials with application in rubber compounds. Tribiological properties of rubber compounds are important for many applications such as tires, shoe heels and soles, wiper blades, artificial joints, O-ring …
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Interactions of diverse students in a South African university residence : the case of Tuks Village
… notes and researcher?s journal. Critical race theory and contact theory were the theoretical frameworks of this study. Data was analysed by means of content analysis. Findings of this study were fivefold: first, institutional practice plays an important role in facilitating contact between …
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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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NON-TRADITIONAL TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS AND PERCEPTIONS AND SYMPTOMS OF VICTIMIZATION AMONG DIASPORIC INDIVIDUALS: MEMBERS OF THE COPTIC CHRISTIAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES AS A CASE STUDY
… symptoms of victimization, the study uses contact theory and intergroup interaction theory. The study also depends on legitimacy theory to study the ways in which government officials use judicial and non-judicial measures of transitional justice mechanisms to address self- classification …
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Post-Obergefell v. Hodges: How LGBT Contact Can Alter Public LGBT Policy Positions in the U.S. and Arkansas
<p>The Contact Theory (CT) of attitudinal change has utilized to understand perceptions of minority-group members and the policies that surround them since the 1950s. It has further been used to specifically examine how we form our opinions of LGBT-identifying individuals, the LGBT community, and …
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