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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"interracial contact"”.
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White racial identity : its relationship to cognitive complexity and interracial contact
… assumption of Helms' theory was that continued interracial contact is essential for advancement in WRI stage development. Part one of this study examined the relationship of cognitive complexity and interracial contact (both formal and informal) to WRI, and the relationship between cognitive …
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Interracial Contact Effects on Racial Prejudice among Students at Selective Colleges and Universities
This dissertation examined interracial contact and racial prejudice among white, black, Asian, and Latino college students at 28 elite colleges and universities in the United States. The study used longitudinal analyses to identify how interracial contact among college students influenced students' …
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Residence students' perceptions of institutional support for interracial contact at the University of Cape Town
While inter-racial contact in university settings has been researched previously, the important concept of institutional support has not. This construct was listed by Allport as a necessary condition under which contact will yield positive results i.e. reduced prejudice towards outgroup members. …
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The effects of the relationship between racial identity and the nature and frequency of interracial contact on racial prejudice and social distance
In the light of social identity theory and contact theory, this study looked at the effects of racial identity on contact and prejudice. The sample consisted of 826 UCT students who belonged to the White and African population groups. Their mean age was 20.50 and they were 52.54% females and 47.46% …
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The other-race effect in face recognition: Perceptual, social-psychological and development insights
… social-motivation or perceptual experience (contact) contributes to the ORE; and whether plasticity of face recognition for face subtypes (specific races) is greater in childhood than in adulthood. My first empirical paper (Chapter 3) investigates the ORE for Caucasian and Asian participants …
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The other-race effect in face recognition: Perceptual, social-psychological and development insights
… social-motivation or perceptual experience (contact) contributes to the ORE; and whether plasticity of face recognition for face subtypes (specific races) is greater in childhood than in adulthood. My first empirical paper (Chapter 3) investigates the ORE for Caucasian and Asian participants …
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The spaces between us : a spatial analysis of racial segregation amongst university students
The contact hypothesis asserts that contact between groups can lead to a reduction in prejudiced attitudes if such contact occurs under favourable conditions. Yet, in desegregated settings where a fair amount of interracial contact is expected to occur, the problem of "illusory contact" persists. …
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The relationships among interracial friendship, personality, and racial attitudes
… with racial attitudes, and the importance of interracial friendship on reducing racial bias ( e.g.,Jackson & Poulsen, 2005). Hypotheses included: 1) individuals high on openness and/or agreeableness will report more positive racial attitudes, 2) positive racial attitudes will increase as the …
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Own and other race face recognition: the effects of instructions and other-race contact
… other-race sensitivity for Black participants. Interracial contact did not appear to relate to the size of the cross-race effect. Overall, results did not support the categorization-individuation model.
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Making public politics private: A narrative study of apartheid racial ideology and its effects on white teenage female sexual desire in post-apartheid South Africa
… function both to fetishize the Other in interracial relationships and to maintain the hegemony of whiteness in interracial contact. Through narrative interviews with a select group of white teenage girls from a mixture of schools in the Northern Suburbs of Cape Town, I analyse how …
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The contact hypothesis and racial diversity in the United States Military
This study explains the application of the Contact Hypothesis in the discussion of racial diversity in the United States military. The purpose of this study is to explore soldiers' racial experiences in an ethnically diverse military. The Contact Hypothesis, also known as the Intergroup Contact …
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Propensity to engage in interracial dialogue on race: A descriptive study of participants and contributing factors
… to the self-selection of participants in interracial dialogue on race and the implications of the findings. This study was conducted within the socio-cultural context of race relations in the United States where the problem of racism has defined the national character, has arguably been …