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How Does Intergroup Contact Predict Stereotypes in a Complex Social Reality? A Cross-Cultural Study of Intergroup Contact, Stereotypes, and Group Status

Pertiwi, Yopina Galih
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7528-6654
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1461963876

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2016, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, Psychology - Experimental.
Contact between two different groups has been found to be negatively correlated with prejudice. Despite the fact that intergroup contact has been studied intensively for decades, research has mainly focused on the association between direct contact (i.e., straight and open contact between members of different groups) and prejudice, while very little research has examined the relations between direct contact and stereotyping. Furthermore, in addition to direct contact, Wright, Aron, McLaughlin-Volpe, and Ropp (1997) have proposed that extended contact (i.e., the knowledge that in-group member(s) has direct contact with out-group member(s)) is a separate predictor of improved intergroup attitudes. Finally, cross-cultural research on intergroup contact is limited. The present study investigated the association between intergroup contact, both direct and extended, and the three dimensions of stereotypes based on the EPA model, i.e. stereotype evaluation, stereotype potency, and stereotype accuracy (Jussim, McCauley, & Lee, 1995; Lee, 2011; Lee, McCauley, Jussim, 2013). The study was conducted in two different cultural settings (i.e., the United States and Indonesia), involving a majority and a minority group in each cultural setting (i.e, European Americans and Chinese Americans in the US, Javanese and Chinese Indonesians in Indonesia). Contrary to the expectation, overall findings revealed that direct contact and extended contact had similar patterns of relationships with each of the dimension of the stereotypes, and in some cases, were moderated by culture and group status. Specifically, a three-way interaction effect between direct contact, culture, and group status as well as three-way interaction effect between extended contact, culture, and group status were found to significantly predict stereotype evaluation. Nevertheless, only a main effect of culture was found to significantly predict stereotype potency when direct contact was the main predictor and extended contact was controlled; whereas a three-way interaction effect between extended contact, culture, and group status was found to significantly predict stereotype potency. Finally, two-way interaction effects of group status and culture were found to significantly predict stereotype accuracy for both direct contact as well as extended contact. More specific findings and possible explanations are discussed.
Andrew Geers, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Jason Rose, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Stephen Christman, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
117 p.
Social Psychology
intergroup, contact, intergroup contact, stereotype, culture, group status, stereotype accuracy, prejudice, outgroup evaluation, outgroup knowledge

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  • Pertiwi, Y. G. (2016). How Does Intergroup Contact Predict Stereotypes in a Complex Social Reality? A Cross-Cultural Study of Intergroup Contact, Stereotypes, and Group Status [Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1461963876

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pertiwi, Yopina. How Does Intergroup Contact Predict Stereotypes in a Complex Social Reality? A Cross-Cultural Study of Intergroup Contact, Stereotypes, and Group Status . 2016. University of Toledo, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1461963876.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pertiwi, Yopina. "How Does Intergroup Contact Predict Stereotypes in a Complex Social Reality? A Cross-Cultural Study of Intergroup Contact, Stereotypes, and Group Status ." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1461963876

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