PSYC 30 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Contact Hypothesis, Henri Tajfel, Psych

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 30
• Professor: Tucker

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Realistic conflict theory: the effects of cooperation. Results: negative ratings from 65% to 15% One cooperative event significantly drops negative attitudes toward each other; in this case, pushing the truck back and then eating together. Aronson et al 1978 the jigsaw technique divide kids into small working groups with both black and white kids in the groups and they must work together to solve a problem. Contact hypothesis allport 1954, pettigrew & tropp 2006. Contact should be rewarding common goal. Contact should be supported by local norms and authority. If you foster contact between people, you will intensify the relationship between them. Try to make it positive relationship instead of negative. Isolate conditions that are most likely to produce cooperation. Minimal group effect = tajfel and turner 1979. The experiment fake assignment to groups on basis of kind of painting you prefer. Then reward another person from your group and for other group.