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The second paper uses a lab experiment to test a specific mechanism through which contact might work. Subjects vicariously experienced intergroup contact that either achieved or failed to achieve a joint goal. It finds that contact only improves attitudes towards the outgroup when it achieves a goal and that contact only improves attitudes of the majority group towards the minority group, not of the minority towards the majority group. The third paper bridges perspectives on group conflict in political economy and political psychology. The political economy literature focuses on bargaining; the political psychology literature focuses on group identities. This paper demonstrates that these two perspectives can work together by applying the group identity perspective to the bargaining perspective, showing how group identities and related psychological and cognitive biases complicate bargaining.","abstract_html":"This dissertation contains three papers. 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The third paper bridges perspectives on group conflict in political economy and political psychology. The political economy literature focuses on bargaining; the political psychology literature focuses on group identities. 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