Positive contact with working-class people reduces personal contribution to inequality

IF 4 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations Pub Date : 2022-07-15 DOI:10.1177/13684302221108936

A. Vázquez, P. Sayans-Jiménez, Lucía López‐Rodríguez, David Lois, Hanna Zagefka

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Abstract

The current research investigates the effect of a type of intergroup contact that has rarely been studied to date, class-based contact, on one’s personal contribution to inequality. We conducted two studies with middle and upper class individuals. We first longitudinally examined whether positive contact with working-class people reduces contribution to inequality (i.e., participants stating that they themselves contribute to maintaining the social hierarchy) whilst controlling for ideological factors. Lower levels of contribution to inequality were present in people with more and better contact, but the change over time was small in the absence of experimental manipulation. An experiment then showed that recall of positive (vs. negative) contact with working-class people reduced participants’ contribution to inequality and increased their willingness to participate in collective action for equality. These results suggest that facilitating spaces where members of different social classes can have positive interactions can contribute to reducing inequality.

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与工人阶级的积极接触减少了个人对不平等的贡献

目前的研究调查了一种迄今为止很少被研究的群体间接触，即基于阶级的接触，对个人对不平等的贡献的影响。我们对中产阶级和上层阶级进行了两项研究。我们首先纵向研究了与工人阶级的积极接触是否会减少对不平等的贡献（即参与者表示他们自己有助于维持社会等级制度），同时控制意识形态因素。接触更多、接触更好的人对不平等的贡献程度较低，但在没有实验操作的情况下，随时间的变化很小。然后，一项实验表明，回忆与工人阶级的积极（与消极）接触减少了参与者对不平等的贡献，并增加了他们参与平等集体行动的意愿。这些结果表明，促进不同社会阶层成员进行积极互动的空间有助于减少不平等。

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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Group Processes & Intergroup Relations is a scientific social psychology journal dedicated to research on social psychological processes within and between groups. It provides a forum for and is aimed at researchers and students in social psychology and related disciples (e.g., organizational and management sciences, political science, sociology, language and communication, cross cultural psychology, international relations) that have a scientific interest in the social psychology of human groups. The journal has an extensive editorial team that includes many if not most of the leading scholars in social psychology of group processes and intergroup relations from around the world.