PSYCH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Negative Zone, Social Rejection, Contact Hypothesis
24 Feb 2016
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Contact hypothesis situation as team members, coworkers: not people with different power ie. maid and boss. Working together, not competing: joint purpose, context where contact with other group is approved ie. school saying they value diversity. Institutional/authority support: knowing youll see them again and relationship can grow. Additional factors; generally similar values on unrelated issues. Having long list made people skeptical that itd be impossible since theres so many pre-reqs. Importance of friendship; best contribution to prejudice reduction compared to having diverse coworkers. Each dot on chart represents someones experiment. If theory is correct, there should be most dots vertical at 0 for pearson r. should be more in negative zone if prejudice reduced. Studies with larger sample are more reliable. Bigger samples are given heavier weight. contact effect study. More diverse teams = greater prejudice reduce. On a sports team people have relatively equal status. More contact with miniorities = a connection built= empathy.
