A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory

Pettigrew, T. F., & Tropp, L. R. (2006). A meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 90(5), 751-783.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2006

DOI

10.1037/0022-3514.90.5.751

Link

https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.90.5.751

Cited from

psychology, sociology_anthropology

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Cultural Friction
  • Backlash implies active rejection of the new in defense of the old; friction produces heterogeneous outcomes—some rejection, some adoption, some creative hybrid forms—the heterogeneity Pettigrew and Tropp (2006) document meta-analytically in their synthesis of intergroup contact research, where contact under appropriate conditions yields integration rather than uniform rejection.

    This sourceMeta-analysis of 515 studies establishing that intergroup contact under appropriate conditions reliably reduces prejudice, yielding heterogeneous (often integrative) rather than uniformly rejecting outcomes—the heterogeneity the marker cites.

• In-Group / Out-Group
  • A manager familiar with the superordinate-category result in social psychology can apply it directly to a siloed organization, because the structural problem, two in-groups treating each other as out-groups, is identical.

    This sourceMeta-analysis of more than 500 studies establishing that intergroup contact under appropriate conditions reliably reduces prejudice; empirical anchor for SIT-derived recategorization, dual-identity, and superordinate-identity interventions.

• Social Identity Theory
  • … (2006) meta-analysis of more than 500 contact-hypothesis studies, which establishes that intergroup contact under appropriate conditions reliably reduces prejudice — the foundation that subsequent SIT-derived interventions (recategorization, dual-identity, superordinate-identity activation) build upon and refine.

    This sourceMeta-analysis of more than 500 studies establishing that intergroup contact under appropriate conditions reliably reduces prejudice; empirical anchor for SIT-derived recategorization, dual-identity, and superordinate-identity interventions.

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