PSY322H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Gunther Plaut, Realistic Conflict Theory, Personalization
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Wyer et al. (2000): motivation and the cognitive resources to do it! Correll et al. (2007) police officers and community. Contact hypothesis: sherif"s robbers cave experiment: 3 phases, formation of group identity. Soon after the two groups does not even want to eat together anymore: facilitating inter-group cohesion. Having fun contact, mere contact was not successful. Common goal: get both groups to contribute equal amounts of money to watch a movie, purposely left out essential things from each group to force both groups to pool together to complete their tasks. Results: increase in inter-group friendship after co-operation: allport (1954) 4 key criteria, equal status members, work towards a common goal. Intergenerational contact: effects on age group attitudes: hewstone et al (2005): Personal relationships with frequent contact attitude change. Predictions: contact should only influence attitude when group salience is high, high group salience category means memberships are salient, can include close out-group id in self in high salience only!
