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- Title
Meeting a nice asylum seeker: Intergroup contact changes stereotype content perceptions and associated emotional prejudices, and encourages solidarity‐based collective action intentions.
- Authors
Kotzur, Patrick F.; Schäfer, Sarina J.; Wagner, Ulrich
- Abstract
Intergroup contact can improve majority members' perception of minorities. Integrating the intergroup contact hypothesis with the stereotype content model and BIAS‐Map, we hypothesized that positive intergroup contact improves German majority members' evaluations of asylum seekers on the warmth and competence dimensions. Using cross‐sectional survey data and structural equation modelling, we found support for this hypothesis (Study 1a, N = 182). Warmth and competence perceptions, in turn, predicted specific intergroup emotions (Study 1b, N = 255). A causal effect of intergroup contact on changes in stereotype content, emotions, and solidarity‐based collective action intentions as an important facilitative behavioural intention debated in the intergroup contact literature is established with experimental data (Study 2, N = 74). Participants interacting with an asylum seeker rated asylum seekers higher on warmth and specific intergroup emotions and were more supportive of solidarity‐based collective actions in favour of asylum seekers. Our study demonstrates that contact has differential effects on cognitive, affective, and behavioural components of prejudice towards asylum seekers that are systematically linked.
- Subjects
GERMANY; AFFECT (Psychology); COGNITION; EMOTIONS; INTENTION; INTERPERSONAL relations; SENSORY perception; PREJUDICES; PSYCHOLOGY of refugees; SOCIAL psychology; SOCIAL skills; STEREOTYPES; SURVEYS; SOCIAL support; STRUCTURAL equation modeling; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
British Journal of Social Psychology, 2019, Vol 58, Issue 3, p668
- ISSN
0144-6665
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/bjso.12304