Attitudes toward the culturally different: the role of intercultural communication barriers, affective responses, consensual stereotypes, and perceived threat

By Julie Spencer-Rodgers, Timothy Mcgovern. 2002

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Subfields: Communication, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Intergroup Anxiety (2014, background): “…found that when barriers to intercultural communication exist (e.g., foreign students have strong accents or limited language skills) and are associated with negative emotional reactions, these emotional reactions are positively correlated with intergroup anxiety (Spencer-Rodgers & McGovern, 2002).”
Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students’ perspectives on ‘internationalisation at home’ (2009, methodology): “…situation in New Zealand, supported more recently by Li & Campbell (2008) and correlating with work in Australia (Volet & Ang, 1998; Wright & Lander, 2003; Summers & Volet, 2008) and the United States (Spencer-Rodgers, 2001; Spencer-Rodgers & McGovern, 2002; Halualani et al, 2004; Halualani, 2008).”
Intercultural Attitudes Predict Favorable Study Abroad Expectations of U.S. College Students (2005, background): “Spencer-Rodgers and McGovern (2002) reported that high levels of prejudice are associated with more negative emotions regarding communication with international students.”
Intergroup threat and outgroup attitudes: a meta-analytic review. (2006, background): “Stereotypes have long been associated with negative outgroup attitudes (Eagly & Mladinic, 1989; Spencer-Rodgers & McGovern, 2002).”
Stressors, anxiety, acculturation and adjustment among international and North American students (2008, background): “Furthermore, an identification of ‘between group’ differences in anxiety levels and experienced difficulties will add to the much needed knowledge of mental health issues in diverse groups of sojourners (Spencer-Rodgers & McGovern, 2002; Ying, Lee, & Tsai, 2007).”
Investigating the impact of personality and early life experiences on intercultural interaction in internationalised universities (2012, background): “Placing the literature in a theoretical context, Spencer-Rodgers and McGovern (2002) and Harrison and Peacock (2010) draw on the „integrated threat theory‟ of intergroup relations (Stephan & Stephan, 2000).”
Prejudice Toward Asian Americans in the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Effects of Social Media Use in the United States (2020, background): “Perceived symbolic threats predict prejudice as perceptions of cultural differences indirectly affect attitudes toward the outgroup (Spencer-Rodgers and McGovern, 2002).”
Speaking With a Nonnative Accent: Perceptions of Bias, Communication Difficulties, and Belonging in the United States (2010, background): “However, because nonnative accents are more likely to interfere with listeners’ comprehension (Adank et al., 2009; Floccia et al., 2006), speakers with nonnative accents may be particularly sensitive to communication problems (Spencer-Rodgers & McGovern, 2002).”
The Effects of Intercultural Contact and Tourism on Language Attitudes and Language Learning Motivation (2005, background): “In a recent article, Spencer-Rodgers and McGovern (2002) argue convincingly that intercultural communication difficulties—or, as they label it, “intercultural communication affect”—serve as a potential causal factor underlying prejudice and discrimination to a much larger extent than usually is as”