PSYCH355 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Rejection, Contact Hypothesis, Abortion-Rights Movements
24 Feb 2016
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Contact hypothesis for contact to reduce prejudice. Coming into situation as team members, coworkers: equal status within the contact situation: not people with different power ie. maid, intergroup cooperation. Joint purpose: institutional support (of authorities, laws, customs) 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. Facilitating factors: equal status outside contact situation, sharing similar attitudes on issues unrelated to intergroup relations, voluntary contact, variety of in + out group members. 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.
