@article{ref1,
title="Prejudice and Group‐Related Behavior in Germany",
journal="Journal of Social Issues",
year="2008",
author="Wagner, Ulrich and Christ, Oliver and Pettigrew, Thomas F.",
volume="64",
number="2",
pages="403-416",
abstract="This article analyses the relationship of ethnic prejudice and discriminatory behavioral intentions in Germany. We utilize two representative surveys conducted in 2002 and 2004 (N= 2,722 and 1,383, respectively) as well as a longitudinal study with three annual measurement points (2002–2004; N= 825). Results show that prejudice is substantially correlated with the respondents' reports of their own discriminatory intentions (R= .33 to .49). Controlling for additional psychological variables, the cross-lagged, longitudinal analyses support the causal hypothesis that prejudice leads to discriminatory intentions. Additional influences on discriminatory intentions—intergroup threat and intergroup contact—are substantially mediated by ethnic prejudice. Thus, a practical implication of these results is that the reduction of intergroup threat and increment of intergroup contact may well lead to both reduced intergroup prejudice and to less discriminatory behavior.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0022-4537",
doi="10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.00568.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-4560.2008.00568.x"
}