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To know you is to love you: Effects of intergroup contact and knowledge on intergroup anxiety and prejudice among indigenous Chileans
Author(s) -
Zagefka Hanna,
González Roberto,
Brown Rupert,
Lay Siugmin,
Manzi Jorge,
Didier Nicolás
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1464-066X
pISSN - 0020-7594
DOI - 10.1002/ijop.12229
Subject(s) - prejudice (legal term) , psychology , indigenous , social psychology , anxiety , contact theory , psychiatry , ecology , structural engineering , engineering , biology
Two surveys were conducted in Chile with indigenous Mapuche participants ( N study 1: 573; N study 2: 198). In line with previous theorising, it was predicted that intergroup contact with the non‐indigenous majority reduces prejudice. It was expected that this effect would be because of contact leading to more knowledge about the outgroup, which would then lead to less intergroup anxiety. The two studies yielded converging support for these predictions.