Can cross-group contact predict advantaged group member’s willingness to engage in costly solidarity-based actions? Yes, if the contact is politicized
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in: Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, Jahrgang 29, Nr. 1 Special Issue, 03.2022, S. 123-139.
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T1 - Can cross-group contact predict advantaged group member’s willingness to engage in costly solidarity-based actions? Yes, if the contact is politicized
AU - Becker, Julia C.
AU - Wright, Stephen C.
AU - Siem, Birte
PY - 2022/3
Y1 - 2022/3
N2 - Positive cross-group contact with disadvantaged group members can reduce prejudice, and, under certain conditions, increase solidarity-based action intentions among advantaged group members. In the present work, we distinguish between positive contact (friendly, cooperative) versus politicized contact (where group-based injustice is discussed) as well as between benevolent helping offered to the disadvantaged group versus costly solidarity-based actions. We predict that positive contact is related to benevolent helping, whereas politicized contact is related to willingness to engage in costly solidarity-based activism. In two studies (N = 257, N = 329), results support these hypotheses: for nonmigrants in Germany and the United Kingdom, positive contact with migrants, mediated by empathy, positive emotions, and movement identification, was a better predictor of benevolent helping, whereas politicized contact with migrants, mediated by anger and/or movement identification was a better predictor of endorsement of costly solidarity-based activism.
AB - Positive cross-group contact with disadvantaged group members can reduce prejudice, and, under certain conditions, increase solidarity-based action intentions among advantaged group members. In the present work, we distinguish between positive contact (friendly, cooperative) versus politicized contact (where group-based injustice is discussed) as well as between benevolent helping offered to the disadvantaged group versus costly solidarity-based actions. We predict that positive contact is related to benevolent helping, whereas politicized contact is related to willingness to engage in costly solidarity-based activism. In two studies (N = 257, N = 329), results support these hypotheses: for nonmigrants in Germany and the United Kingdom, positive contact with migrants, mediated by empathy, positive emotions, and movement identification, was a better predictor of benevolent helping, whereas politicized contact with migrants, mediated by anger and/or movement identification was a better predictor of endorsement of costly solidarity-based activism.
KW - Psychology
KW - positive contact
KW - cross-group contact
KW - costly solidarity-based action
KW - politicized contact
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127374209&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4473/TPM29.1.9
DO - 10.4473/TPM29.1.9
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85127374209
VL - 29
SP - 123
EP - 139
JO - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology
JF - Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology
SN - 1972-6325
IS - 1 Special Issue
ER -