Improving Intergroup Attitudes through Televised Vicarious Intergroup Contact

Joyce, Nick; Harwood, Jake

doi:10.1177/0093650212447944

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“…However, media are also powerful in reversing some of these effects. Indeed, media that represent minorities in a positive manner and depict positive intergroup contact between majority and minority member increase positive intergroup attitudes in majority members (e.g., Joyce & Harwood, 2012). More work is needed to examine if these positive effects can also generalize to minority members.…”

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Muslim Americans’ Responses to Social Identity Threats: Effects of Media Representations and Experiences of Discrimination

Saleem

Ramasubramanian

2017

Media Psychology

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Direct and indirect social identity threats can influence stigmatized individuals to seek identity management strategies that restore a positive sense of social identity. The current study examined the effects of media representations and selfreported experiences of discrimination on Muslim American students' identity management strategies. Results revealed that Muslim American students who viewed negative media representations of their religious ingroup, relative to a control video, were less likely to desire acceptance by other Americans and more likely to avoid interactions with majority members. Additionally, self-reported experiences of discrimination significantly and positively influenced a desire for collective action. These results reveal the powerful effects of media representations and discrimination in threatening minority group members' social identity and exacerbating negative intergroup relations between majority and minority groups.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim Americans’ Responses to Social Identity Threats: Effects of Media Representations and Experiences of Discrimination

Saleem

Ramasubramanian

2017

Media Psychology

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“…Intergroup atrocities, whether on an individual (e.g., the murder of Lee Rigby in London in 2013) or collective level (e.g., the 2015 Paris terrorist 8 attacks), are highly salient in the news. Unfortunately, these negative instances of vicarious contact can also affect the intergroup attitudes of viewers, especially if people are highly identified with the ingroup [34]. However, the effects of negative vicarious contact can be mitigated if the outgroup perpetrator(s) is portrayed, and seen, as atypical [35].…”

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Indirect contact and prejudice reduction: limits and possibilities

Brown

Paterson

2016

Current Opinion in Psychology

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Here we review recent developments in the field of indirect intergroup contact, an extension of the classic Contact Hypothesis. Three forms of indirect contact are assessed: extended, vicarious and imagined. The strengths and limitations of each are evaluated. Although not as potent as direct contact, indirect forms of contact generally offer a more diverse set of practical solutions for reducing prejudice, especially in challenging contexts where direct contact may be infrequent or impossible.

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“…The current research seeks to fill this void, focusing on primary and secondary effects of exposure to positive, neutral and negative portrayals of primary out‐group members on TV, controlling for effects of face‐to‐face interaction and online contact with both primary and secondary out‐group members. Moreover, the research on STE of indirect contact in general and of vicarious contact in particular is very limited, related only to very similar primary and secondary out‐groups (e.g., different immigrants groups; Harwood, Paolini, Joyce, Rubin, & Arroyo, ; Joyce & Harwood, ). This study, however, focuses on dissimilar primary and secondary out‐groups.…”

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Is negative the new positive? Secondary transfer effect of exposure to LGBT portrayals in TV entertainment programs

Lissitsa

Kushnirovich

2019

J Applied Social Pyschol

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This study investigates the primary effect of positive, neutral, and negative exposure to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) TV portrayals in entertainment programs on attitudes toward the LGBT community and the Secondary Transfer Effect (STE) of such exposure on attitudes toward people with Asperger's Disorder (the secondary out‐group), controlling for face‐to‐face and online contacts with both out‐groups. Research was conducted using a mixed methods approach. Quantitative Study 1 used an online survey of 716 Israeli Jews, to investigate primary and secondary effects of TV exposure to LGBT portrayals. The positive primary effect of TV exposure was shown—regardless of LGBT portrayals perceived as positive, neutral, or negative. STE of TV exposure to neutral and negative LGBT portrayals is likely to diminish social distance to people with Asperger's Disorder, while no STE was found with positive LGBT portrayals. Full mediation effect of attitudes toward the LGBT community was found. Qualitative Study 2, based on 52 in‐depth interviews, was conducted in order to reveal the hidden mechanisms of these effects, examining the parasocial experience and its interpretations by the viewers. According to qualitative findings, the positive primary and secondary effects of negative exposure may be explained by varied interpretations of gay portrayals on TV by different people depending on social background and life experience, opposite reaction on stereotypical gay portrayals on TV, and asymmetrical negative‐positive heuristic. Given the important role of TV in fostering more positive intergroup relations, this research revealed sources of prejudice reduction and increase in tolerance toward “others” for society at large.

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Improving Intergroup Attitudes through Televised Vicarious Intergroup Contact

Cited by 190 publications

References 32 publications

Muslim Americans’ Responses to Social Identity Threats: Effects of Media Representations and Experiences of Discrimination

Muslim Americans’ Responses to Social Identity Threats: Effects of Media Representations and Experiences of Discrimination

Indirect contact and prejudice reduction: limits and possibilities

Is negative the new positive? Secondary transfer effect of exposure to LGBT portrayals in TV entertainment programs

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