The effect of university roommate contact on ethnic attitudes and behavior

By C. van Laar, Shana Levin, S. Sinclair, J. Sidanius. 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students’ perspectives on ‘internationalisation at home’ (2009, background): “Van Laar et al (2005) report that multicultural student housing plays a strong role in reducing prejudice and perceived threats.”
Interminority Attitudes (2014, unknown): “We were not able to test the transfer effect directly (i.e., the mediating role of primary outgroup attitude; see note 8), but we did find that more contact with one particular minority outgroup (e.g., Moroccans) was associated with less social distance toward another minority group (e.g., Sur-iname”
Changing the ideological roots of prejudice: Longitudinal effects of ethnic intergroup contact on social dominance orientation (2014, background): “Ethnic roommate heterogeneity was found to have a beneficial effect on several of the outcome variables, including SDO (see van Laar et al., 2005, Table 3).”
Beyond and Below Racial Homophily: ERG Models of a Friendship Network Documented on Facebook1 (2010, background): “Other authors have shown how sharing a randomly assigned dorm affects the establishment of cross-racial ties, again independent of preference for same-race alters (Van Laar et al. 2005; Marmaros and Sacerdote 2006; Mayer and Puller 2008). Mouw and Entwisle (2006) are the first to demonstrate how spa”
Reducing prejudice via direct and extended cross-group friendship (2007, background): “Moreover, he found that friendship was associated with lower levels of prejudice towards nine different minority groups, showing that the negative relationship between friendship and prejudice can generalise even to groups not directly involved in the contact (Van Laar, Levin, Sinclair, & Sidanius, ”