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A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change.

Tabea Hässler, +45 more
- 27 Jan 2020 - 
- Vol. 4, Iss: 4, pp 380-386
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Using a large and heterogeneous dataset, Hässler et al. show that intergroup contact and support for social change towards greater equality are positively associated among members of advantaged groups, but negatively associated among disadvantaged groups.
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Guided by the early findings of social scientists, practitioners have long advocated for greater contact between groups to reduce prejudice and increase social cohesion. Recent work, however, suggests that intergroup contact can undermine support for social change towards greater equality, especially among disadvantaged group members. Using a large and heterogeneous dataset (12,997 individuals from 69 countries), we demonstrate that intergroup contact and support for social change towards greater equality are positively associated among members of advantaged groups (ethnic majorities and cis-heterosexuals) but negatively associated among disadvantaged groups (ethnic minorities and sexual and gender minorities). Specification-curve analysis revealed important variation in the size-and at times, direction-of correlations, depending on how contact and support for social change were measured. This allowed us to identify one type of support for change-willingness to work in solidarity- that is positively associated with intergroup contact among both advantaged and disadvantaged group members.

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Frequently Asked Questions (11)
Q1. What are the contributions in "A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change" ?

Hässler et al. this paper presented a collection of short stories with a focus on the relationship between race and gender. 

To assess the reliability of a particular finding, and the characteristics of studies that are associated with stronger, weaker, or reversed effects, a study must be repeated across many contexts using comparable measures and analytic procedures. 

Many of the largest positive correlations between intergroup contact and support for social change include the ‘working in solidarity’ measure. 

Evidence gathered over several decades shows that intergroup contact can reduce prejudice and increase social cohesion across group divides3,4. 

To estimate therelation between contact and support for social change, the authors calculated bivariate correlations after removing the sample means from the data via residualization (which is comparable to a multilevel analysis with random intercepts). 

The potential for contact to both promote and undermine support for social change highlights the need for research elucidating when, for whom, and in what contexts intergroup contact predicts people’s willingness to advocate and take action for social equality. 

The authors used specification curve analysis23 to probe the variation in the direction and magnitude of the association between contact and social change using every combination of available measures (see Supplementary Figure 3). 

Heeding calls for more collaborative, high-powered, transparent, and reproducibleresearch processes19, the authors test the association between contact and support for social change using a large and heterogeneous dataset, sampling 12,997 participants from 69 countries and four populations (ethnic majorities, cis-heterosexuals, ethnic minorities, and LGBTIQ+ individuals; see Supplementary Tables 1-3 for more details). 

Among advantaged groups, willingness to work in solidarity might reflect a recognition that social change is the responsibility of many in the larger society as a whole, rather than a burden to be carried solely by members of disadvantaged groups29,30. 

The smallest possible p-value with 1,000 reshuffled samples is p < 1/1,000.Supplementary InformationSupplementary Materials: Supplementary Materials and Methods, Supplementary Figures 1-5, Supplementary Tables 1- 13, Supplementary References. 

By contrast, positive correlations were almost exclusively produced by model specifications including ‘working in solidarity’ as the measure of support for social change.