Positive and negative intergroup contact: Interaction not asymmetry
By Katrín Árnadóttir, Simon Lolliot, Rupert Brown, Miles Hewstone. 2018
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This research reports a novel investigation into the comparative effects of positive and negative direct and extended intergroup contact on intergroup orientations. It tested the generality of the positive-negative asymmetry effect among majority (N = 357) and minority (N = 101) group members in Iceland. Little evidence of asymmetry was observed: the beneficial effects of positive contact were mostly as strong as the detrimental effects of negative contact, for both direct and extended contact. However, evidence was found for alternative interaction models in which positive contact buffers the negative effects of negative contact, and negative contact enhances the benefits of positive contact. These interaction effects were found only for direct contact and principally in the majority group, but were also found for the minority group, though more weakly. No interaction was observed for extended contact. It appeared that differential group salience elicited by positive and negative contact could partly contribute to the explanation of the observed effects, at least in the majority sample.
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Citations in the corpus
- 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): “…Graf et al., 2014; Labianca et al., 1998; Paolini et al., 2010, 2014; Techakesari et al., 2015; for firstmeta-analytical evidence see Paolini & McIntyre, 2018), others found no substantial differences in the effects of positive and negative contact (Árnadóttir et al., 2018; Mazziotta et al., 2011).”
- How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking (2020, background): “Contact does not necessarily take positive courses (e.g., Árnadóttir et al., 2018; Graf et al., 2014; Paolini et al., 2010) and it would be interesting to see whether some predictors of intergroup contact are specific for positive intergroup contact while others are more strongly associated with…”