Life on the Ocean Wave: Testing Some Intergroup Hypotheses in a Naturalistic Setting

By Rupert Brown, P. Maras, Barbara M. Masser, James E. Vivian, Miles Hewstone. 2001

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A survey (N= 352) was conducted among British passengers of a cross-channel ferry. The survey aimed to test hypotheses drawn from Realistic Group Conflict, Social Identity and Contact theories using mainly a correlational design. However, an intervention by members of the outgroup (French fishermen blockading a port) also allowed a quasi-experimental test of the effects of a direct experience of intergroup conflict. Results supported the hypotheses since conflict and national identification were associated with more negative and with less positive attitudes toward the outgroup, while contact had the reverse effects. In addition, the salience of group membership in the contact relationship weakly moderated the effect of contact.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Rhiannon N. Turner
2. R. Crisp
3. S. Stathi
4. Miles Hewstone
5. A. Voci
6. J. Leyens
7. Rupert Brown
8. S. Demoulin

In Social Psychology

1. Rhiannon N. Turner
2. Miles Hewstone
3. R. Crisp
4. Rupert Brown
5. S. Stathi
6. A. Voci
7. Hanna Zagefka
8. S. Gaertner

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Rhiannon N. Turner
2. Miles Hewstone
3. R. Crisp
4. Rupert Brown
5. S. Stathi
6. A. Voci
7. Hanna Zagefka
8. S. Gaertner

Citations in the corpus

• Imagining intergroup contact promotes projection to outgroups (2008, background): “Clement and Krueger (2002) found a lack of projection to the outgroup in minimal group settings.”
• Contact, Perspective Taking, and Anxiety as Predictors of Stereotype Endorsement, Explicit Attitudes, and Implicit Attitudes (2007, background): “For example, improved contact quantity and quality related to less intergroup anxiety toward the French (Brown et al., 2001)and between Hindus and Muslims in Bangladesh (Islam & Hewstone, 1993).”
• Intergroup Contact and Prejudice Toward Immigrants in Italy: The Mediational Role of Anxiety and the Moderational Role of Group Salience (2003, methodology): “With the aim of obtaining a single index of frequent and positive contact, we multiplied the scores relative to quantity and quality of contact.1 This procedure, adopted by Brown et al. (2001), allows us to consider the two aspects of contact simultaneously.”
• The Imagined Contact Hypothesis (2012, background): “Given that high identification can be associated with more negative outgroup attitudes (Brown et al., 2001; Mummendey, Klink, & Brown, 2001) aggressive emotional reactions to threat (Crisp, Heuston, Farr & Turner, 200), or less willingness to embrace prejudice-reduction interventions (Crisp & Beck, ”
• Intergroup threat and outgroup attitudes: a meta-analytic review. (2006, background): “The relationship between intergroup anxiety and negative outgroup attitudes has been observed across a variety of natural settings as well as in the laboratory (Brown et al., 2001).”
• Does contact reduce prejudice or does prejudice reduce contact? A longitudinal test of the contact hypothesis among majority and minority groups in three European countries. (2009, background): “These results correspond to those of Brown et al. (1999, 2001).”
• Consumer animosity, economic hardship, and normative influence: how do they affect consumers' purchase intention? (2010, background): “, 2001), which in turn generated negative attitudes to a perceived out-group (Brown et al., 2001; Shoham et al., 2006).”