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Effects of positive physical imagined contact in a spanish sample
| Resumo: | Intergroup conflict has been present since the beginning of humankind. The fights for territories or power and the discrimination of the other seems a constant in our History. From several fields, it is have shown how the boundaries between groups and cultures and the competitive style of many of these relations set the basis for the emergence of conflict, being each day more obvious due to the Globalisation processes. For this reason, the reduction of prejudice and discrimination has been a main objective for the Intercultural Psychology, which, must create tools for this purpose. This work emphasise the usefulness of one of the most promising tools on this field, the imagined contact, grounded in Intergroup Contact Theory (Brown & Hewstone, 2005; Pettigrew, 1998). This technique allows the reduction of implicit negative attitudes toward outgroups using the imagination of individual interactions with members of an outgroup. In this experiment, it is tested a variant of this kind of contact, the physical imagined contact, as well as we try to demonstrate the existence of an improvement in prejudice reduction, at levels of implicit attitudes, when an imagined positive physical contact is given. The findings could not support statically our hypothesis. We discuss the implications of these results and the possibilities in the development of improvements for this useful tool. |
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| Autores principais: | López González, Miguel Ángel |
| Assunto: | Intergroup contact Imagined contact Physical contact Contact Implicit attitudes Psicologia da cultura Relações interculturais Relações intergrupais Identidade étnica Processo físico Mudança de atitude |
| Ano: | 2017 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | ISCTE |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório ISCTE |
| Resumo: | Intergroup conflict has been present since the beginning of humankind. The fights for territories or power and the discrimination of the other seems a constant in our History. From several fields, it is have shown how the boundaries between groups and cultures and the competitive style of many of these relations set the basis for the emergence of conflict, being each day more obvious due to the Globalisation processes. For this reason, the reduction of prejudice and discrimination has been a main objective for the Intercultural Psychology, which, must create tools for this purpose. This work emphasise the usefulness of one of the most promising tools on this field, the imagined contact, grounded in Intergroup Contact Theory (Brown & Hewstone, 2005; Pettigrew, 1998). This technique allows the reduction of implicit negative attitudes toward outgroups using the imagination of individual interactions with members of an outgroup. In this experiment, it is tested a variant of this kind of contact, the physical imagined contact, as well as we try to demonstrate the existence of an improvement in prejudice reduction, at levels of implicit attitudes, when an imagined positive physical contact is given. The findings could not support statically our hypothesis. We discuss the implications of these results and the possibilities in the development of improvements for this useful tool. |
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