Vicarious Intergroup Contact and the Role of Authorities in Prejudice Reduction

Gómez, Ángel; Huici, Carmen

doi:10.1017/s1138741600004169

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“…The small amount of work on mediated vicarious contact (none of it in the musical arena) shows that there are positive effects when people identify with the ingroup member in the contact experience, when the outgroup member is seen as somewhat typical of their group, and when the contact is positive (Gómez & Huici, 2008;Joyce & Harwood, 2014;Mazziotta, Mummendey, & Wright, 2011). These effects have been demonstrated not only with television stimuli, but also with children's story books (Cameron, Rutland, Brown, & Douch, 2006).…”

Section: Intergroup Contact Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Harmonious Contact: Stories About Intergroup Musical Collaboration Improve Intergroup Attitudes

2016

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Watching contact between members of one's ingroup and members of an outgroup in the media (mediated vicarious contact) improves intergroup attitudes. We compare mediated vicarious contact with observing only members of the outgroup (parasocial contact), and examine whether the activity of the portrayed contact matters. Building on theory, we predict that watching outgroup members playing music should reduce prejudice more than watching them engaged in nonmusical activities, particularly with vicarious (vs. parasocial) contact. Results show that vicarious musical contact enhances perceptions of synchronization, liking, and honesty between ingroup and outgroup actors in a video, which in turn results in more positive attitudes toward the outgroup. Counter to predictions, parasocial musical contact results in less positive outcomes than parasocial nonmusical contact.

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Section: Intergroup Contact Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Harmonious Contact: Stories About Intergroup Musical Collaboration Improve Intergroup Attitudes

2016

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“…Research showed that imagined contact increases positive intergroup attitudes and perceptions of outgroup variability (Turner, Crisp, & Lambert, 2007a), enhances projection of positive traits to the outgroup (Stathi & Crisp, 2008), and reduces implicit prejudice (Turner & Crisp, 2010; Vezzali, Capozza, Giovannini, & Stathi, in press), and stereotype threat (Abrams et al, 2008; Crisp & Abrams, 2008). Alternative forms of indirect contact experiences are also promoted through media exposure (Herek & Capitanio, 1997; Ortiz & Harwood, 2007), ad hoc films (Gómez & Huici, 2008), and stories concerning intergroup contact (Cameron & Rutland, 2006).…”

Section: Indirect Forms Of Contactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indirect contact through book reading: Improving adolescents' attitudes and behavioral intentions toward immigrants

Vezzali

Stathi

Giovannini

2012

Psychology in the Schools

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A study was conducted to test the effects of indirect contact through book reading on the improvement of Italian students' attitudes, stereotypes, and behavioral intentions toward immigrants. The results indicated that adolescents who read a book concerning intercultural topics, compared to those who read a book unrelated to intercultural themes or to those who did not read any book, showed improved intergroup attitudes, reduction in stereotyping, more positive intergroup behavioral intentions, and an increased desire to engage in future contact. Furthermore, the effects of indirect contact were mediated by increased inclusion of other in the self and reduced group identification. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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“…The intervening variable was intergroup anxiety which was lower when contact was positive and higher when contact was negative. Vicarious contact is effective, as well: watching a video in which in-group and out-group members (basketball teams) performed cooperative activities decreased the perception that the in-group was negatively viewed by the out-group (Gómez & Huici, 2008) (for the effects of indirect exposure to the out-group on metaperceptions, see O 'Brien, Leidner, & Tropp, 2018).…”

Section: Humanity Metaperceptions and Intergroup Contactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the out‐group recognize our mental skills? Cross‐group friendships, extended contact, and the expectation of humanizing perceptions from the out‐group

Capozza

Falvo

Bernardo

2020

J Applied Social Pyschol

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Recent research has shown the negative effect of meta‐dehumanization: the perception that out‐group members deny a fully human status to the in‐group. So far, no strategies have been investigated that allow the improvement of humanity meta‐attributions. In this work, we focused on the two mind perception dimensions: agency (e.g., the capacity of planning actions) and experience (e.g., the capacity of feeling emotions), and investigated whether direct and indirect intergroup friendships are associated with the expectation that the out‐group will recognize our mental capacities. A survey was conducted considering the relationship between two regional groups in Italy (Northern and Southern Italians). Participants were Northern university students. A two‐level mediation model was tested, in which the exogenous variables were cross‐group friendship and extended contact, the first‐level mediators were IOS (the inclusion of the out‐group in the self mechanism), in‐group and out‐group norms, and the second‐level mediators were anxiety, empathy, and trust toward the out‐group. The dependent variables were the evaluations of agency and experience regarding one's group (Northerners) expected by Southerners. Models were estimated by path analysis with observed variables. To replicate prior findings, the attributions of agency and experience to the out‐group (Southerners) were also assessed. Results showed that both direct and indirect friendships are related to more positive meta‐attributions through the mediation of affective and cognitive factors. Findings have practical implications: contact may favor the expectation of being perceived both as moral agents and as moral patients, thus improving intergroup relations.

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Vicarious Intergroup Contact and the Role of Authorities in Prejudice Reduction

Cited by 49 publications

References 41 publications

Harmonious Contact: Stories About Intergroup Musical Collaboration Improve Intergroup Attitudes

Harmonious Contact: Stories About Intergroup Musical Collaboration Improve Intergroup Attitudes

Indirect contact through book reading: Improving adolescents' attitudes and behavioral intentions toward immigrants

Does the out‐group recognize our mental skills? Cross‐group friendships, extended contact, and the expectation of humanizing perceptions from the out‐group

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