- Title
- Positive and extensive intergroup contact in the past buffers against the disproportionate impact of negative contact in the present
- Creator
- Paolini, Stefania; Harwood, Jake; Rubin, Mark; Husnu, Shenel; Joyce, Nicholas; Hewstone, Miles
- Relation
- Funding BodyARCGrant NumberDP0770704
- Relation
- European Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 44, Issue 6, p. 548-562
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2029
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Negative (vs positive) intergroup contact may have a disproportionately large impact on intergroup relations because of valence-salience effects, whereby negative contact causes higher category salience (Paolini, Harwood, & Rubin, 2010). One correlational and three experimental studies in three conflict areas (Northern Ireland, Arizona's border area, and Cyprus; Ns = 405, 83, 76, and 91) tested the moderation of these valence-salience effects by individuals' histories of outgroup contact. Consistent with a perceived fit principle valence-salience effects of face-to-face, television-mediated, and imagined contact held among individuals with negative or limited histories of outgroup contact; these effects were significantly reduced or nonsignificant among individuals with positive or extensive past outgroup contact. These moderation effects suggest that positive and diverse intergroup contact in the past buffers against the harmful effects of negative contact experiences in the present, thus limiting the potential for negative spiralling of intergroup relations.
- Subject
- intergroup contact; positive intergroup contact; intergroup relations; negative intergroup contact
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054400
- Identifier
- uon:15743
- Identifier
- ISSN:0046-2772
- Rights
- This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Paolini, Stafania; Harwood, Jake; Rubin, Mark; Husnu, Shenel; Joyce, Nicholas; Hewstone, Miles.'Positive and extensive intergroup contact in the past buffers against the disproportionate impact of negative contact in the present' European Journal of Social Psychology Vol. 44, Issue 6, p. 548-562 (2014), which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2029. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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