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Showing 1 to 20 of 268 for “"intergroup"”.
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Components of Intergroup Hostility
… played by perceived threat in this particular intergroup dynamic. That these contributions were accomplished using in-depth qualitative analysis, which acknowledge the importance of consensual understandings of social reality and incorporate participants’ own subjective interpretations, also …
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Remember the Good Times: Does Savoring a Previous Intergroup Interaction Increase Whites' Positive Intergroup Emotions and Willingness to Develop Future Intergroup Friendships?
… that positive contact - most notably intergroup friendship - predicts decreased prejudice. Whites, however, may be hesitant to develop intergroup friendships because they experience negative emotions like anxiety when faced with the prospect of interacting with outgroup members (i.e., …
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The Moderating Effect of Intergroup Climate on the Prejudice-Reducing Effects of Intergroup Contact
Drawing upon intergroup contact theory (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew 1998) and the emerging literature on intergroup climate (e.g., Christ et al., 2013, 2014), I utilised various antipathetic intergroup relationships (e.g., Black people vs. White people; non-Muslims vs. Muslims), and various models of …
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Group conflict and intergroup contact
… and that collaboration increased voluntary intergroup contact, intergroup trust, and feelings of security for the participants and for nonparticipants living in the same villages as the participants. The second paper uses a lab experiment to test a specific mechanism through which contact …
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Identity, Intergroup Relationships, and Environmental Conflict
… information processing that can exacerbate intergroup divisions in multi-stakeholder settings. The specific objectives of this dissertation are to 1) integrate self-affirmation theory and moral foundations theory into the current knowledge about collaborative conservation (Chapter 2), 2) …
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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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Exploring political intolerance in a post-apartheid generation of South Africans : the role of intergroup threat and negative intergroup emotion
This study extends Gibson and Gouws ' (2003) work on threat and intolerance as well as Kuklinski, Riggle, Ottati, Schwarz and Wyer's (1991) work on the influence of emotion on people's tolerance judgements. Method: Participants were randomly assigned to two experimental groups.
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The Emotional Logic of Participation in Intergroup Violence
<p>Existing theories of intergroup violence focus on the motives of group or leaders. But why do thousands of people choose to take part given the dangers and risks? This dissertation develops a model, the entitlement-blame-anger model, to explain participation in intergroup violence. According to …
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Discerning the other: political prejudice and intergroup contact
… One of the most studied methods for decreasing intergroup prejudice has been Gordon Allport’s intergroup contact hypothesis. Allport suggested that contact between groups who see themselves as equals with common interests, common goals, and the support of cultural institutions are more likely to …
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Beyond Procedural Justice: Responding to intergroup-level authority decisions
… individual-level research, to consider group and intergroup-level interactions. Secondly, it argues that identification with a social group in the first place can be a determinant of perceptions of fairness and the subsequent judgements of the decisions made by authorities. Eight experimental …
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Stereotypes and Prejudice: Intergroup Contact Between Americans and Japanese
… orientation (individualism or collectivisim), intergroup friendly contact, and stereotype and prejudice variability was assessed. Results showed that both Americans and Japanese have positive stereotypes of each other, with Americans selecting the trait "intelligent" as the most common …
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Multiculturalism caveat: potential antecedents of intergroup and acculturation attitudes
… Moise, Perrault & Senecal, 1997) and adopts an intergroup approach (Zagefka & Brown, 2002), in that it considers the perspective of both the majority and minority groups involved in the acculturation process. Specifically, the experimental work of this thesis assesses whether social norms on …
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Extending Intergroup Contact Theory to Men’s Anti-Women Biases
… and willingness 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 …
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Language Models as Mirrors and Bridges for Intergroup Communication
… language models (LLMs) can serve dual roles in intergroup communication: as mirrors that reflect intergroup differences, and as bridges that facilitate communication across group boundaries. Intergroup communication refers to interactions between individuals from different social groups, such as …
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The Student Police Unity League and Intergroup Contact Theory
… operating 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 …
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Effects of Identity, Uncertainty, and Language Contact on Intergroup Relations
… of contact with an outgroup language to shape intergroup relations. To address this lacuna in the research, the two current studies examined two potential contextual factors that may impact whether outgroup language contact worsens or improves attitudes and action tendencies toward Latinos in …
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Intergroup conflict in organisations:predictors and relationships with team working effectiveness
… continues with an illustration of the nature of intergroup conflict between British health care teams, by presenting results from an interview study using the critical incident technique. Within the theory testing part, drawing upon a sample of 53 British health care teams from five …
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