Cross-Group Friendships and Intergroup Attitudes

By Kristin M Davies, Linda R. Tropp, Arthur Aron, T. Pettigrew, Stephen C. Wright. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 2011

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Confidence in Contact: A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents (2016, positive): “Psychological research has shown that cross-group friendship is a particularly potent form of intergroup contact that improves intergroup attitudes and behaviors, and can also be a resource to help young people deal with discrimination (Davies et al., 2011; Turner et al., 2007b, c).”
Advances in Intergroup Contact (2012, background): “The benefits of cross-group friendships are now wellsupported meta-analytically (Davies et al., 2011).”
Preventing prejudice and improving intergroup attitudes: A meta-analysis of child and adolescent training programs (2014, positive): “In addition, recent meta-analytic results (e.g., Davies et al., 2011) confirm the central role of personal friendships, and these are impossible or at least difficult to promote in an indirect contact situation.”
How Much Diversity is Enough? The Curvilinear Relationship Between College Diversity Interactions and First-Year Student Outcomes (2013, result): “(Davies et al. 2011; Pettigrew and Tropp 2006).”
Changing the ideological roots of prejudice: Longitudinal effects of ethnic intergroup contact on social dominance orientation (2014, background): “In less or nonregulated intergroup contexts, however, having both frequent and positive intergroup contact has been considered to result in the most powerful effects on intergroup variables (e.g., Davies et al., 2011; Dhont et al., 2012; Swart et al., 2011).”
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): “Previous research suggests that, in particular, more intimate forms of cooperation, like intergroup friendship (Davies et al., 2011; Marinucci et al., 2020), yield strong positive effects for intergroup relations and that casual forms of negative contact might be more powerful than more negative…”
The Single Factor Fallacy: Implications of Missing Critical Variables from an Analysis of Intergroup Contact Theory1 (2017, background): “Positive outcomes of most intergroup contact have now been firmly established by a series of meta-analyses (Davies et al., 2011; Lemmer & Wagner, 2015; Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006, 2008, 2011).”
Interventions to reduce prejudice and enhance inclusion and respect for ethnic differences in early childhood: A systematic review (2012, neutral): “Some studies were quite transparent in their focus on ethnicity by asking for names of friends from the outgroup; this might heighten the desire to be consistent (Davies et al., 2011).”