Increasing outgroup trust, reducing infrahumanization, and enhancing future contact intentions via imagined intergroup contact.
By Loris Vezzali, D. Capozza, S. Stathi, D. Giovannini. 2012
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The present study was designed to test whether imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) affects attributions of human emotions to outgroup members and positive behavioral intentions toward the outgroup via increased outgroup trust. Italian fourth-graders took part in a three-week intervention, where they were asked to imagine meeting an unknown immigrant child in various social settings. One week after the last session, they were administered the dependent measures. Results revealed an indirect effect of imagined contact on both behavioral intentions and attributions of uniquely human emotions to outgroup members via outgroup trust. The theoretical and practical implications are discussed, and an integration of the imagined contact and infrahumanization literature is suggested.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Confidence in Contact: A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents (2016, unknown): “Among a younger sample of Italian primary school children, Vezzali et al. (2012a) similarly found that extended contact was positively related to attitudes toward immigrants.”
- The paths to social licence to operate: An integrative model explaining community acceptance of mining $ (2014, result): “The mediating role of trust between positive contact and cooperation with various outgroups has also been observed in numerous other studies (Dhont and Hiel, 2011; Maoz and McCauley, 2011; Pagotto et al., 2013; Turner et al., 2013; Vezzali et al., 2012).”