TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Negative Intergroup Contact Makes Group Memberships Salient: Explaining Why Intergroup Conflict Endures
JO  - Personality and social psychology bulletin
A1  - Paolini, Stefania
A1  - Harwood, Jake
A1  - Rubin, Mark
SP  - 1723
EP  - 1738
VL  - 36
IS  - 12
N2  - Drawing from the intergroup contact model and self-categorization theory, the authors advanced the novel hypothesis of a valence-salience effect, whereby negative contact causes higher category salience than positive contact. As predicted, in a laboratory experiment of interethnic contact, White Australians (N = 49) made more frequent and earlier reference to ethnicity when describing their ethnic contact partner if she had displayed negative (vs. positive, neutral) nonverbal behavior. In a two-wave experimental study of retrieved intergenerational contact, American young adults (N = 240) reported age to be more salient during negative (vs. positive) contact and negative contact predicted increased episodic and chronic category salience over time. Some evidence for the reverse salience-valence effect was also found. Because category salience facilitates contact generalization, these results suggest that intergroup contact is potentially biased toward worsening intergroup relations; further implications for theory and policy making are discussed.<p />
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SN  - 0146-1672
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167210388667
ID  - ref1
ER  -