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`Where the rubber hits the road’ en route to inter‐group harmony: Examining contact intentions and contact behaviour under meta‐stereotype threat
Author(s) -
MacInnis Cara,
Hodson Gordon
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
british journal of social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.855
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 2044-8309
pISSN - 0144-6665
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8309.2010.02014.x
Subject(s) - psychology , prejudice (legal term) , social psychology , stereotype (uml) , stereotype threat , ingroups and outgroups , psychological intervention , psychiatry
Although inter‐group contact reduces prejudice, intra‐group contact is most typically preferred. Understanding factors contributing to out‐group avoidance, therefore, is imperative. Unlike previous correlational studies, other‐stereotype ( out‐group is biased ) and meta‐stereotype ( out‐group sees one's in‐group as biased ) information was manipulated in an inter‐group contact setting, at the personal (you/partner) or group (in‐group/out‐group) level. Whites under threat generally indicated positive expectations and intentions to approach Black interaction partners. However, at the behavioural level, personal meta‐stereotype manipulations ( your partner thinks you are biased ) generated out‐group avoidance several times stronger than in the other threat conditions. Implications for the development of prejudice interventions are discussed within an aversive racism framework.