Is negative mass media news always associated with outgroup prejudice? The buffering role of direct contact

Fuochi, Giulia; Voci, Alberto; Veneziani, Chiara A.; Boin, Jessica; Fell, Benjamin; Hewstone, Miles

doi:10.1177/1368430219837347

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“…For example, in the context of Bosnia Herzegovina, positive post-war contact was associated with higher outgroup trust and lower social distance when individuals already had lots of positive outgroup contact before the war (Voci et al, 2017). Extensive and positive contact in the past can further buffer the detrimental effects of negative contact in the present (Paolini et al, 2014; for similar results see Árnadóttir et al, 2018;Fuochi et al, 2020b). However, positive contact has also been found to be particularly beneficial for those who have had little outgroup contact.…”

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The generalization of intergroup contact effects: Emerging research, policy relevance, and future directions

Boin

Rupar

Graf

et al. 2021

Journal of Social Issues

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Intergroup contact is one of the most promising and effective strategies for reducing prejudice. Importantly, intergroup contact not only improves attitudes towards an encountered outgroup member but also to the outgroup as a whole (i.e., primary transfer effects), to other outgroups (i.e., secondary transfer effects), and even enhances cognitive functioning beyond intergroup relations (i.e., tertiary transfer effect). In this article, we first review the recent developments on primary, secondary, and tertiary contact generalization. We then summarize mechanisms that underlie and condition each of these generalizations. Third, we highlight key critiques against the contact literature identifying avenues for future research on generalization processes. Lastly, we underline the policy value of research on generalization effects.

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Section: Moderators Of Specifically Primary Transfer Effectsmentioning

confidence: 94%

The generalization of intergroup contact effects: Emerging research, policy relevance, and future directions

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Rupar

Graf

et al. 2021

Journal of Social Issues

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“…Contact with Republicans. Participants were asked three questions about contact with Republicans (adopted from Fuochi et al, 2019): "How many Republicans do you know personally? ", "How many Republicans can you say you know well?"…”

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“…Contact with Republicans. We measured contact with Republicans using two items adopted from past research (Christ & Wagner, 2013;Fuochi et al, 2019; α = .80, M = 5.67, SD = 3.25): " How many Republicans do you know personally?" (response options: "0 = none" to "10 or more") and "How frequently do you have contact with republicans?"…”

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Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups are Less Electable

Mercier¹,

Celniker²

2020

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Three studies show that Democrats overestimate the explicit prejudice of the American electorate, and thus see disadvantaged groups as less electable. Study 1 found that Democrats underestimated the percentage of Americans who say they would vote for presidential candidates from disadvantaged groups. Study 2 replicated this finding and demonstrated that Democrats who perceive high levels of explicit prejudice towards a group also believe presidential candidates from that group would be less electable. Moreover, Democrats who frequently interacted with Republicans had more accurate estimations of explicit prejudice. Study 3 found that correcting misperceptions about explicit prejudice made Democrats believe generic presidential candidates from disadvantaged groups would be more electable. We did not find evidence that correcting misperceptions affected beliefs about the electability of specific candidates in the 2020 Democratic Primary or support for these candidates.

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“…To put it simply, media reach and freedom to cover certain societal issues may trigger ethnocultural sensitivities among the media receivers [5]. In this scenario, media receivers may perceive the media channel as a source of promoting stereotypes about an individual's sub-group [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As such, media-generated contents sometimes emphasize certain aspects, e.g., racial or ethnic [7,10]. Rhetorically, individuals or groups can be depicted with certain labels [6,9]. For example, western media portrayed Muslims as terrorists and also coined terms like radical Islamism groups.…”

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Examining the Effects of Media-Generated Stereotypes on Receivers’ Trust and Attitude in Pakistan. Moderating Influence of Ethnicity and Gender

2021

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There is a long-standing debate about the effects of media-generated stereotypes on receivers’ trust and attitude. However, there is insufficient consensus about their influence on the media receiver’s ecological perspective in determining their extent of trust and attitudes. Drawing an analogy from Differential Susceptibility to Media Effect Model (hereafter DSMM) notion that media effects are conditional and are contingent on differential-susceptibility, this study examines the influence of dispositional and social susceptibility to media. To do so, the study validates the influence of media user’s gender (dispositional susceptibility) and ethnicity (social susceptibility) in determining the outcomes of media-generated stereotypes, media trust (MT), and attitude towards media organization (AO). The survey method has been employed to collect data through a self-administered questionnaire from 1061 university students in public sector institutions in Pakistan. The results provide empirical evidence that media-generated stereotypes are a substantially negative predictor of media trust and attitudes towards the media organization. The results also validate that the influence of the stereotyping manifested by the receiver’s ecological perspective such as ethnicity and gender are crucial determinants of the receiver’s trust and attitudes. Managerially, the study urges that journalistic practices must be more ethnoculturally inclusive, to cope with the contemporary media landscape.

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Is negative mass media news always associated with outgroup prejudice? The buffering role of direct contact

Cited by 24 publications

References 57 publications

The generalization of intergroup contact effects: Emerging research, policy relevance, and future directions

The generalization of intergroup contact effects: Emerging research, policy relevance, and future directions

Overestimating Reported Prejudice Causes Democrats to Believe Disadvantaged Groups are Less Electable

Examining the Effects of Media-Generated Stereotypes on Receivers’ Trust and Attitude in Pakistan. Moderating Influence of Ethnicity and Gender

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