Prejudice And Minority Proportion: Contact Instead Of Threat Effects

By U. Wagner, Oliver Christ, T. Pettigrew, Jost Stellmacher, Carina Wolf. 2006

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Does Size Really Matter? On the Relationship between Immigrant Group Size and Anti-Immigrant Prejudice 1 (2017, background): “…1995; Gijsberts, Scheepers, and Coenders 2004; Kunovich 2004; Coenders, Lubbers, and Scheepers 2005), others show a negative relationship (Fox 2004; Wagner et al. 2006; Hjerm 2009) or little relationship at all (McLaren 2003; Dixon and Rosenbaum 2004; Dixon 2006; Strabac and Listhaug 2008; Wilkes,…”
Who Can Enter? A Multilevel Analysis on Public Support for Immigration Criteria across 20 European Countries (2009, background): “For example, Wagner, Christ, Pettigrew, Stellmacher, and Wolf (2006) demonstrated that, in line with intergroup contact approaches, an increase in the percentage of ethnic minorities in German districts reduced prejudice.”
How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking (2020, background): “Aprecondition to any formof direct face-to-face contact is the presence of outgroupmembers, that is the existence of contact opportunities (e.g., Kotzur&Wagner, 2020;VanZalk et al., 2020;Wagner et al., 2006).”
Consequences of Diversity for Social Cohesion and Prejudice: The Missing Dimension of Intergroup Contact (2015, background): “Consistent with prior studies in both the United States (e.g., Sigelman, Bledsoe, Welch, & Combs, 1996) and Europe (e.g., Wagner et al., 2006) we found that living in more diverse neighborhoods was associated with increased intergroup contact, and we found limited evidence for a direct link between…”
Exposure to Racial Out-Groups and Implicit Race Bias in the United States (2015, background): “Observing that most studies that have revealed a negative relationship between diversity and interracial relations in the United States have surveyed intergroup attitudes in the South, Wagner et al., (2006) hypothesized that unique features of the South may explain this relationship.”
How does intergroup contact reduce prejudice? Meta‐analytic tests of three mediators (2008, positive): “This weighting was achieved using SPSS macros and guidelines developed by Wilson (2002), which provide the appropriate parameters and probability values for meta-analytic data (see also Lipsey & Wilson, 2001).”
The Pitfalls and Promise of Increasing Racial Diversity: Threat, Contact, and Race Relations in the 21st Century (2018, background): “For instance, the percentage of ethnic minorities in Germans’ home districts is negatively related to the expression of antiminority bias, a relationship attributable to increased intergroup contact (Wagner, Christ, Pettigrew, Stellmacher, & Wolf, 2006; see also Schmid, Hewstone, & Al Ramiah, 2012).”