Imagining Intergroup Contact Can Improve Intergroup Attitudes

By Rhiannon N. Turner, R. Crisp, E. Lambert. 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Dropping the weight stigma: nostalgia improves attitudes toward persons who are overweight (2012, background): “Turner et al. / Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 48 (2012) 130–137”
Investigating Variation in Replicability: A “Many Labs” Replication Project (2022, unknown): “Recent evidence suggests that merely imagining contact with members of ethnic outgroups is sufficient to reduce prejudice toward those groups (Turner, Crisp, & Lambert, 2007).”
Positive and extensive intergroup contact in the past buffers against the disproportionate impact of negative contact in the present (2014, methodology): “EXPERIMENT 2 In our next experimental test, we remained in Arizona’s Southern border area but tested the generalizability of basic valencesalience effects and moderation by past outgroup contact using an imagined contact paradigm (Turner et al., 2007).”
Imagining intergroup contact promotes projection to outgroups (2008, methodology): “tact with outgroupers we returned to a variant of the imagined outdoor scene control used in previous research (Turner et al., 2007).”
Imagined contact as a prejudice‐reduction intervention in schools: the underlying role of similarity and attitudes (2014, background): “…on imagined contact with adults has demonstrated that the effects of the technique are not a result of demand characteristics (Turner & Crisp, 2010), informational load and mere exposure to the out-group (Turner, Crisp, et al., 2007), and nonrelevant imagined interaction (Stathi & Crisp, 2008).”
Imagined Intergroup Contact: A New Technique for Encouraging Greater Inter-Ethnic Contact in Cyprus (2010, background): “For instance, in three studies, Turner, Crisp, and Lambert ( 2007 ) found that simply imagining contact with an outgroup member (an elderly man or a gay man) led subsequently to more positive evaluations of that outgroup.”
Improving intergroup relations through direct, extended and other forms of indirect contact (2011, background): “Imagined contact reduces bias toward elderly persons and gay men (Turner et al., 2007) and leads to more positive perceptions of the attributes of other ethnic and national groups (Husnu & Crisp, 2010; Stathi & Crisp, 2008).”
Increasing perceived variability reduces prejudice and discrimination (2011, background): “Encouraging people to imagine interacting with a member of the out-group (Turner, Crisp, & Lambert, 2007) or to imagine the feelings of out-group members (Stephan & Finlay, 1999) may be effective only if they are willing and motivated to engage in the mental effort.”
Confidence in Contact: A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents (2016, unknown): “In the context of white–South Asian relations in the United Kingdom, Turner et al. (2007b) found that white primary school children aged 8–11 years and white and South Asian high school students aged 11–15 years with cross-group friends held more positive outgroup attitudes.”
Can imagined interactions produce positive perceptions? Reducing prejudice through simulated social contact. (2009, methodology): “We asked young participants to imagine talking to an older stranger, using the same instructions as in Turner, Crisp, and Lambert (2007), before completing an explicit outgroup attitude measure and a measure of implicit attitude, the Implicit Association Test (Greenwald, McGee, & Schwartz, 1998).”