On the spurious effect of intergroup friendship on outgroup attitudes in schools: The role of social influence and the positive impact of exposure to outgroup peers.
IF 3.2
2区 心理学
Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
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Abstract
Promoting intergroup friendships in schools is regarded as a powerful strategy for improving outgroup attitudes. However, stochastic actor-oriented modelling (SAOM) studies have often revealed no association between intergroup friendship and outgroup attitudes. I investigated whether SAOM studies reported no effect of intergroup friendship on outgroup attitudes, what was responsible for this surprising finding and whether exposure to outgroup peers was positively related to outgroup attitudes. The meta-analysis of SAOM studies confirms no association between intergroup friendship and outgroup attitudes. Examining longitudinal social network data of 2700 German students, I found that a positive link between intergroup friendship and outgroup attitudes appeared only when I did not control for social influence. This indicates that intergroup friendship did not automatically improve outgroup attitudes. Instead, the development of outgroup attitudes among students depended on social influence and, thus, the quality of outgroup attitudes among their outgroup friends. Exposure to outgroup peers was, however, positively associated with outgroup attitudes. These findings reframe intergroup contact theory by suggesting that intergroup friendship is not essential for improving outgroup attitudes. Rather, social influence and exposure to outgroup peers could be key factors shaping outgroup attitudes.群体间友谊对学校中外群体态度的虚假影响：社会影响的作用和接触外群体同伴的积极影响。
在学校促进群体间友谊被认为是改善外群体态度的有力策略。然而，随机行为者导向模型（SAOM）研究往往显示，群体间友谊与群体外态度之间没有关联。我调查了随机行为者导向模型研究是否报告了群体间友谊对群体外态度没有影响，是什么导致了这一令人惊讶的发现，以及与群体外同伴的接触是否与群体外态度正相关。SAOM研究的荟萃分析证实，群体间友谊与群体外态度之间没有关联。通过研究 2700 名德国学生的纵向社会网络数据，我发现只有在不控制社会影响的情况下，群体间友谊与群体外态度之间才会出现正相关。这表明，群体间的友谊并不会自动改善外群体的态度。相反，学生的外群体态度的形成取决于社会影响，因此也取决于外群体朋友的外群体态度的质量。然而，与外群体同伴的接触与外群体态度呈正相关。这些研究结果重构了群体间接触理论，表明群体间友谊对于改善外群体态度并不是必不可少的。相反，社会影响和与外群体同伴的接触可能是形成外群体态度的关键因素。
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British Journal of Social Psychology
PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-
CiteScore
9.50
自引率
7.40%
发文量
85
期刊介绍：
The British Journal of Social Psychology publishes work from scholars based in all parts of the world, and manuscripts that present data on a wide range of populations inside and outside the UK. It publishes original papers in all areas of social psychology including: • social cognition • attitudes • group processes • social influence • intergroup relations • self and identity • nonverbal communication • social psychological aspects of personality, affect and emotion • language and discourse Submissions addressing these topics from a variety of approaches and methods, both quantitative and qualitative are welcomed. We publish papers of the following kinds: • empirical papers that address theoretical issues; • theoretical papers, including analyses of existing social psychological theories and presentations of theoretical innovations, extensions, or integrations; • review papers that provide an evaluation of work within a given area of social psychology and that present proposals for further research in that area; • methodological papers concerning issues that are particularly relevant to a wide range of social psychologists; • an invited agenda article as the first article in the first part of every volume. The editorial team aims to handle papers as efficiently as possible. In 2016, papers were triaged within less than a week, and the average turnaround time from receipt of the manuscript to first decision sent back to the authors was 47 days.
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