Generalization of positive attitude as a function of subgroup and superordinate group identifications in intergroup contact

By Roberto González, Rupert Brown. 2003

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The role of category salience in mediating the effects of intergroup contact was examined. One theoretical model proposes that some psychological salience of subgroup categories is necessary to facilitate the generalization of attitude change beyond the immediate contact situation. Another argues that a re-categorization of the subgroups into a new superordinate category is more beneficial, whilst a third suggests that de-categorizing the situation entirely is optimal. An alternative view, which combines the first two models, proposes a Dual Identity strategy (simultaneous high superordinate and high subgroup categorization) as an important mediator of the relationship between contact variables and intergroup attitudes. In the study, participants (N=114) undertook a cooperative intergroup task under four conditions of category salience: `subgroup?, `superordinate?, `superordinate and subgroup?, and `no group salience?. Evaluative ratings and symbolic reward allocations both for the groups encountered (contact) and those outside the situation (generalization) provided measures of intergroup bias. Bias within the contact situation was mainly eliminated in all conditions. However, on the more generalized bias measures, only the `superordinate? and `superordinate and subgroup? (Dual Identity strategy) conditions maintained this low level; in the other two conditions intergroup bias resurfaced. A combination of the first two models is proposed.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Moderating Role of Ingroup Identification (2005, methodology): “There is a large corpus of empirical evidence in support of this, however, there is also mounting evidence that the effectiveness of such interventions can vary (Dovidio et al., 1998; González & Brown, 2003).”
Extended contact through story reading in school : Reducing children's prejudice toward the disabled (2006, background): “Research on the decategorization model of contact has produced mixed results (Bettencourt et al., 1992; Gonzalez & Brown, 2003; Maras & Brown, 2000).”
Identification in Organizations: An Examination of Four Fundamental Questions (2008, background): “…where both the lower order and superordinate identities are affirmed as well as the essential complementarity of multiple lower order identities (González & Brown, 2003; Hornsey & Hogg, 2000; Huo, Smith, Tyler, & Lind, 1996; cf. Eggins, Reynolds, & Haslam, 2003).16 Similarly, Haslam and…”
Promoting Social Inclusion in Educational Settings: Challenges and Opportunities (2019, background): “In general, antibias programing can be effective when programs are designed under a dual identity model (Gonz alez & Brown, 2003), whereby youth are encouraged to maintain a strong ingroup identity while increasing the salience of a broader, superordinate identity (e.g., the school community).”
Come together: longitudinal comparisons of Pettigrew's reformulated intergroup contact model and the Common Ingroup Identity Model in Anglo-French and Mexican-American contexts (2004, background): “Dual identity (Gaertner & Dovidio, 2000) constitutes an amalgam of salient categorization and recategorization, in which original group identities are maintained, but within the context of a superordinate identity (cf. González & Brown, 2003).”
SOCIAL IDENTITY IN INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY: CONCEPTS, CONTROVERSIES AND CONTRIBUTIONS (2006, background): “…of a superordinate identity that does not gloss over group difference, but rather incorporates group difference as an identity-defining feature (González & Brown, 2003; Haslam, 2001; Haslam, Jetten et al., 2003; Hornsey & Hogg, 1999, 2000b; Jetten, Duck et al., 2002; van Leeuwen & van…”
Dual identities in intergroup contact: group status and size moderate the generalization of positive attitude change (2006, methodology): “First, generalization is often weak—the reduction in bias produced by recategorization rarely extends beyond the contact situation (for exceptions, see Dovidio et al., 1997; Gonzalez & Brown, 2003).”
Identity Politics and Politicized Identities: Identity Processes and the Dynamics of Protest (2014, background): “In trying to answer these questions, I will draw on recent social psychological research on dual identity (Brown, 2000; González & Brown, 2003; Huo et al., 1996; Klandermans et al., 2001, 2008; Simon, 2011).”
Another view of “we”: Majority and minority group perspectives on a common ingroup identity (2007, background): “…be elicited experimentally by simultaneously emphasising common university affiliation and subgroup identities, as opposed to just the common identity or the different group identities, either in the context of cooperative relations (González & Brown, 2003, 2006) or not (Dovidio et al., 2000b).”
Superordinate identities and intergroup conflict: The ingroup projection model (2007, result): “This prediction is quite at odds with the view held by other theorists that dual identification benefits positive intergroup relations (eg, Dovidio, Gaertner, & Validzic, 1998 ; Gonzales & Brown, 2003 ; Hornsey & Hogg, 2000a ).”
Promoting children's positive intergroup attitudes towards stigmatized groups: Extended contact and multiple classification skills training (2007, background): “Hewstone and Brown (1986) contended that the positive effects of contact will be generalized to the out-group, during contact, when ingroup and out-group boundaries remain salient (e.g. Gonzalez & Brown, 2003).”