Beyond the optimal contact strategy: a reality check for the contact hypothesis.
By John A. Dixon, Kevin Durrheim, Colin Tredoux. American Psychologist, 2005
613 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Sociology and Political Science
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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): “Overall, answering the call by Keil and Koschate (2020) and Dixon et al. (2005) to use qualitative data to shed more light on positive as well as negative intergroup contact experiences in individuals’ everyday lives, demonstrates that both positive and negative contact occur mostly at work and in…”
- Challenging the Stubborn Core of Opposition to Equality: Racial Contact and Policy Attitudes (2010, neutral): “…underpins the contact hypothesis (e.g. Connolly, 2000; Reicher, 1986, 2007; Wright & Lubensky, 2008), including members of our own research group (Dixon, Durrheim & Tredoux, 2005), and there is a lingering scepticism about the capacity of contact to alter white attitudes towards matters of „core…”
- Ageism at work: The impact of intergenerational contact and organizational multi-age perspective (2013, background): “As such, our studies shed new light on the effects of contact on a series of variables that have often been neglected in the prejudice literature (Dixon et al., 2005).”
- How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking (2020, background): “In line with Dixon et al. (2005) critique of theoretical individualism in contact research, past work on intergroup contact has rarely framed ingroup processes as “collective” in nature and virtually no attention has been paid to how social identity processes can shape intergroup contact behavior.”