PSYCH 160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Intimate Relationship, Subtyping
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Contact between hostile groups will reduce prejudice when certain conditions are met: cooperative/mutual interdependence. Aronson"s jigsaw classroom: equal status, sustained contact (e. g. sustained exposure to counter-stereotypical data) Repeated, sustained contacts makes it more di cult to explain away counter-stereotypical evidence: view members of other group as stereotype-inconsistent and typical, personal relationship. Data suggest being friends with someone from other group reduces prejudice, as does knowing an ingroup member is friends with someone from other group: institutionalized support. Get people to re-categorize members of original ingroup + outgroup (i. e. superordinate category) Former outgroup members are now ingroup members, and treated accordingly. 2 groups of 4 ps each (aaaa + bbbb) rst met in separate rooms. Then convened around the same table in a particular seating arrangement: Greater integrated seating associated w higher ratings of friendliness across and within groups, con dence in group"s decision, value of member"s contributions. Most people saw they will confront it, but actually don"t.
