Can we really reduce ethnic prejudice outside the lab? A meta‐analysis of direct and indirect contact interventions

By G. Lemmer, U. Wagner. 2015

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Social Psychology

1. Miles Hewstone
2. John F. Dovidio
3. Rupert Brown
4. T. Pettigrew
5. Simon Lolliot
6. Oliver Christ
7. Katrín Árnadóttir
8. Fabian M. H. Schellhaas

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Miles Hewstone
2. John F. Dovidio
3. Rupert Brown
4. T. Pettigrew
5. Oliver Christ
6. Simon Lolliot
7. Rhiannon N. Turner
8. Katrín Árnadóttir

Citations in the corpus

• Reducing intergroup bias through intergroup contact: Twenty years of progress and future directions (2017, background): “Subsequent metaanalyses confirmed the efficacy of cross-group friendships (Davies, Tropp, Aron, Pettigrew, & Wright, 2011) and the effectiveness of contact interventions outside the lab (Lemmer & Wagner, 2015).”
• Positive and negative intergroup contact: Interaction not asymmetry (2018, background): “In the field of intergroup relations, one of the most reliable – if not always the strongest – effects is that contact between members of different groups leads to lessened prejudice and more favourable intergroup attitudes (Brown & Hewstone, 2005; Lemmer & Wagner, 2015; Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006).”
• Confidence in Contact: A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents (2016, neutral): ““Indirect contactˮ refers to measures or interventions based on the principles of intergroup contact (Allport, 1954), but which do not involve a face-to-face intergroup interaction (see Lemmer & Wagner, 2015; Miles & Crisp, 2014; Turner et al., 2007c; Vezzali et al., 2014).”
• Does negative contact undermine attempts to improve intergroup relations? Deepening the understanding of negative contact and its consequences for intergroup contact research and interventions (2021, background): “One well-studied psychological pathway to improve intergroup attitudes and increase cooperation between social groups is positive intergroup contact (Lemmer & Wagner, 2015; Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006): When individuals from different groupsmeet, having positive experiences with an individual from…”
• The Single Factor Fallacy: Implications of Missing Critical Variables from an Analysis of Intergroup Contact Theory1 (2017, background): “Positive outcomes of most intergroup contact have now been firmly established by a series of meta-analyses (Davies et al., 2011; Lemmer & Wagner, 2015; Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006, 2008, 2011).”
• Promoting Social Inclusion in Educational Settings: Challenges and Opportunities (2019, background): “Recent metaanalytic evidence suggests that such indirect approaches function as an effective prejudice reduction strategy (Lemmer & Wagner, 2015).”