Page-Gould, et al., 2008: Participating in interracial interactions while sharing personal information decreased cortisol levels and initiated cross-group interactions among White and Latino undergraduates ten days later
Reference:
Mallett, R. K., & Wilson, T. D. (2010). Increasing positive intergroup contact. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(2), 382-387.
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Pairs of White and Latino undergraduates got to know each other using a “fast friends” procedure, asking and answering a series of increasingly self-disclosing questions and playing cooperative games over three sessions. Over this period, students, especially those higher in prejudice and in worries about prejudice, showed strong declines in cortisol levels, a stress hormone. Moreover, as compared to students in same-race dyads, the intervention led students with higher initial levels of prejudice to initiate more cross-group interactions on campus over the next ten days.
Psychological Process:
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Psychological Question Addressed
What connections do I have/could I have with other groups?What connections do I have/could I have with other groups?Psychological Question Addressed
What connections do I have/could I have with other groups?Psychological Process 2:
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Social Area:
Intergroup relationships
Intervention Technique:
Prompting by altering situations