Personalization and the Promise of Contact Theory

By N. Miller. 2002

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Intergroup Contact and Grandparent–Grandchild Communication: The Effects of Self-Disclosure on Implicit and Explicit Biases Against Older People (2006, background): “In intergroup relations research, self-disclosing information has been shown to reduce the negative bias toward the outgroup that ordinarily characterizes intergroup relations (Ensari & Miller, 2002).”
Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination: Theoretical and empirical overview (2010, background): “…alternatives have been proposed that involve de-emphasizing group membership and establishing personalized relations (Brewer & Miller, 1984; Miller, 2002; Wilder, 1986), recategorizing groups within a common group identity (Gaertner & Dovidio, 2000), or maintaining distinct group…”
Relational Identity and Identification: Defining Ourselves Through Work Relationships (2007, background): “Further, research, reviewed by Miller (2002), indicates that personalization tends to increase perceived similarity, interpersonal attraction, and positive affect.”
Beyond the optimal contact strategy: a reality check for the contact hypothesis. (2005, background): “The first has suggested that the effects of contact on interpersonal perceptions may not generalize to shape intergroup perceptions, a problem that has been extensively analyzed in the contact literature (see Hewstone, 1996; Miller, 2002).”
Reducing intergroup bias through intergroup contact: Twenty years of progress and future directions (2017, background): “With respect to decategorization, to the extent that people learn through contact information about a member of another group that individuates that person, group identities may become less salient in the relationship (Miller, 2002).”
Confidence in Contact: A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents (2016, background): “Second, they provide an opportunity for mutual self-disclosure, the voluntary sharing of intimate or personal information with one another, thought to be key to developing close relationships (Miller, 2002).”
Living in a multicultural world: Intergroup ideologies and the societal context of intergroup relations (2014, methodology): “In contrast to the Common Ingroup Identity Model, which argues for recategorisation into a common group, Brewer and Miller’s (1984) Personalisation Model suggests that it is best if people come into contact as individuals rather than as members of distinct groups (see also Miller, 2002).”
Acting in Solidarity: Cross‐Group Contact between Disadvantaged Group Members and Advantaged Group Allies (2016, unknown): “First, positive contact is often structured to focus attention away from collective identities (e.g., Miller, 2002; Gaertner & Dovidio, 2000).”
Mediated Intergroup Contact: Concept Explication, Synthesis, and Application (2012, background): “Among many cognitive factors, factual information about an outgroup (Stephan & Stephan, 1984) as well as clear awareness of cross-group differences learned in the process of intergoup contact (Wolsko, Park, Judd, & Wittenbrink, 2000) were upheld as important mediators of the positive effects, as was”
Forgive and Forget? Antecedents and Consequences of Intergroup Forgiveness in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008, background): “One of these is empathy (Ensari & Miller, 2002; Harwood et al., 2005; Tam, Hewstone, Harwood, & Voci, 2004), which has also been shown to improve outgroup attitudes (Batson et al., 1997).”
Prejudice in Schools: Promotion of an Inclusive Culture and Climate (2010, background): “Theories that explain prejudice range from ethnocentrism to orecticism, competition and social dominance orientation, and authoritarian personality and trait theory (Altemeyer, 1988; Bobo & Hutchings, 1996; Huddy, 2004; Levy, 1999; Miller, 2002; Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Sue, 2004; YoungBruehl, 1996)”
Improving intergroup relations with extended and vicarious forms of indirect contact (2014, background): “Given that high-status groups prefer talking about commonalities (Saguy, Dovidio, & Pratto, 2008) and that consequently cross-group friendships may reduce membership salience in the long term (Miller, 2002), the effectiveness of direct contact for making society more equal is severely limited.”
Another view of “we”: Majority and minority group perspectives on a common ingroup identity (2007, background): “For example, decategorisation strategies that emphasise the individual qualities of others (Wilder, 1981 ) or encourage personalised interactions (Miller, 2002 ) have been used to decrease the salience of social categories and associated identities.”
Reducing prejudice via direct and extended cross-group friendship (2007, background): “However, subsequent investigations have considered self-disclosure, the voluntary presentation of information that is of an intimate or personal nature to another person (Miller, 2002 ), as a mediator underlying the relationship between cross-group friendship and outgroup attitude.”