Text-based E-contact: Harnessing cooperative Internet interactions to bridge the social and psychological divide

IF 10.1 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

European Review of Social Psychology Pub Date : 2020-01-01 DOI:10.1080/10463283.2020.1753459

F. White, Rachel D. Maunder, Stefano Verrelli

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In order to bridge the psychological and physical divide between different groups, researchers have harnessed the positive elements of the Internet to improve intergroup contact. One new and effective Internet strategy is Electronic- or E-contact. Unlike other contact approaches, E-contact is an experimental intergroup intervention that uniquely accommodates Allport’s contact theory and recategorisation processes, to create a structured, cooperative, synchronous and goal-directed online text interaction between members from different groups. E-contact has been found to successfully improve intergroup relations between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland and Muslims and Catholics in Australia; and reduce bias against lesbian women and gay men, people with schizophrenia, Indigenous Australians, and transgender individuals. This paper discusses the unique engineering and advantages of E-contact interventions in comparison to existing contact strategies, identifies the theories that guide E-contact interventions, provides meta-analytic evidence of its effects, and discusses the strengths, limitations and future directions for E-contact research.

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基于文本的电子接触:利用合作的互联网互动来弥合社会和心理上的鸿沟

为了弥合不同群体之间的心理和生理鸿沟，研究者们利用互联网的积极因素来改善群体间的联系。一个新的和有效的互联网策略是电子或电子接触。与其他接触方式不同，E-contact是一种实验性的群体间干预，它独特地适应了Allport的接触理论和重新分类过程，在不同群体的成员之间创造了一种结构化的、合作的、同步的、目标导向的在线文本互动。人们发现，电子接触成功地改善了北爱尔兰天主教徒和新教徒以及澳大利亚穆斯林和天主教徒之间的群体间关系;减少对男女同性恋者、精神分裂症患者、澳大利亚土著居民和变性人的偏见。本文讨论了电子接触干预与现有接触策略相比的独特工程和优势，确定了指导电子接触干预的理论，提供了其效果的元分析证据，并讨论了电子接触研究的优势、局限性和未来方向。

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European Review of Social Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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