Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and Experience of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland

By Miles Hewstone, E. Cairns, A. Voci, Juergen Hamberger, Ulrike Niens. 2006

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Positive and negative intergroup contact: Interaction not asymmetry (2018, background): “Positive intergroup contact, both direct and indirect, is associated with a host of beneficial outcomes, from more favourable implicit attitudes (e.g., Tam et al., 2006) to increased trust and forgiveness after bouts of intergroup conflict (e.g., Hewstone et al., 2006).”
Direct contact and authoritarianism as moderators between extended contact and reduced prejudice (2011, result): “The finding that extended contact increases trust (see also Tam et al., 2009) complements previous studies on the positive effects of direct contact on trust (e.g., Hewstone et al., 2006; Tausch et al., 2007; Turner, Hewstone, & Voci, 2007).”
From imagery to intention: A dual route model of imagined contact effects (2010, background): “Similarly, Hewstone, Cairns, Voci, Hamberger, and Niens ( 2006 ) examined the role of intergroup contact between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland and found that contact with outgroup friends was positively associated with perspective taking, which was also among the strongest positive p”
Reducing Competitive Victimhood in Kosovo: The Role of Extended Contact and Common Ingroup Identity (2012, background): “These effects were driven by increased intergroup trust (Hewstone et al., 2006), intergroup empathy and perception of the outgroup’s humanity, and by reduced anger toward the outgroup (Tam et al.”
Cross-Group Friendships and Intergroup Attitudes (2011, background): “…have recently been identified in the intergroup relations literature as having significant roles in the contact–prejudice relationship (e.g., Aron & McLaughlinVolpe, 2001; Batson et al., 1997; Hewstone et al., 2006; Paolini et al., 2004; Pettigrew & Tropp, 2008; Wright, Aron, & Tropp, 2002).”
The Impact of Intergroup Emotions on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland (2007, methodology): “Intergroup forgiveness The measure of intergroup forgiveness was a shortened form of one used in previous research ( Hewstone et al., 2004, 2006 ), developed through a series of focus groups with Northern Irish citizens (see McLernon et al., 2002).”
Population Ratios and Prejudice: Modelling Both Contact and Threat Effects (2010, background): “Indeed, having friends of the other community related to greater forgiveness, even among Catholics and Protestants who had suffered personally from the ‘trouble’s’ violence (Hewstone et al. 2006: 113).”