Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929005
- Title
- Negative intergroup contact makes group memberships salient: explaining why intergroup conflict endures
- Author/Creator
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Paolini, Stefania;
Harwood, Jake;
Rubin, Mark
- Institution
- The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Science & Information Technology, School of Psychology
- Description
- Drawing from the intergroup contact model and self-categorization theory, the authors advanced the novel hypothesis of a valence-salience effect, whereby negative contact causes higher category salience than positive contact. As predicted, in a laboratory experiment of interethnic contact, White Australians (N = 49) made more frequent and earlier reference to ethnicity when describing their ethnic contact partner if she had displayed negative (vs. positive, neutral) nonverbal behavior. In a two-wave experimental study of retrieved intergenerational contact, American young adults (N = 240) reported age to be more salient during negative (vs. positive) contact and negative contact predicted increased episodic and chronic category salience over time. Some evidence for the reverse salience-valence effect was also found. Because category salience facilitates contact generalization, these results suggest that intergroup contact is potentially biased toward worsening intergroup relations; further implications for theory and policy making are discussed.
- Relation
- Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin Vol. 36, Issue 12, p. 1723-1738
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167210388667
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Keyword(s)
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intergroup contact;
quality of contact;
category salience;
self-categorization theory;
prejudice;
intergroup relations
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Rights
- The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol 36 /Issue 12, December 2010 by SAGE Publications Ltd. / SAGE Publications, Inc., All rights reserved. ©2010
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/929005
- Identifier
- ISSN:0146-1672
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