Cooperation, ethnic salience and generalization of interethnic attitudes

✍ Scribed by JAN PIETER VAN OUDENHOVEN; JAN TJEERD GROENEWOUD; MILES HEWSTONE

• Book ID: 102658609
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 899 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0046-2772
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-0992(199607)26:4<649::aid-ejsp780>3.0.co;2-t

✦ Synopsis

Abstracz

This study compared the effectiveness of three theoretically-based conditions of intergroup cooperation in bringing about generalization of ethnic outgroup attincdes from a cooperation partner to the outgroup as a whole. Twenty-seven pairs of Dutch secondary school pupils were assigned at random to work together in triads to solve two word puzzles. The triads consisted of one Turkish pupil, always a confederate, and two Dutch pupils. The three conditwns varied according to whether reference was made to the ethnic background of the confederate in both an introhctory conversation and in the conversation-break between puzzles (High-High salience); only in the later break (Low-High); or not at all (Low-Low). Results show no diflerences between conditwns in attitudes towards the partner, which were quite positive. However, attitude change only generalized in the two conditwns in which ethnic membership was ma& salient (Low-High and High-High, which did not differ). These fmdings are discussed in terms of different models of intergroup contact, and how contact may actually work.