Secondary Transfer Effect of Contact

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Experimental Research ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Transfer Effect ◽  
Evaluative Conditioning ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Secondary Transfer ◽  
Primary Reduction

This paper reviews the evidence for a secondary transfer effect of intergroup contact. Following a contact’s typical primary reduction in prejudice toward the outgroup involved in the contact, this effect involves a further, secondary reduction in prejudice toward noninvolved outgroups. Employing longitudinal German probability samples, we found that significant secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact exist, but they were limited to specific outgroups that are similar to the contacted outgroup in perceived stereotypes, status or stigma. Since the contact-prejudice link is bidirectional, the effect is inflated when prior prejudice reducing contact is not controlled. The strongest evidence derives from experimental research. Both cognitive (dissonance) and affective (evaluative conditioning) explanations for the effect are offered.

scholarly journals On the Generalization of Intergroup Contact: A Taxonomy of Transfer Effects

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 430-435
Author(s):  
Rose Meleady ◽  
Richard J. Crisp ◽  
Gordon Hodson ◽  
Megan Earle
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Contact Process ◽  
Semantic Distance ◽  
Transfer Effect ◽  
Cognitive Growth ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Secondary Transfer ◽  
Favorable Conditions

The contact hypothesis proposes that bringing groups together under favorable conditions can improve intergroup relations. It is now well established that intergroup contact can improve attitudes not only toward the out-group as a whole but also toward other, noncontacted groups ( secondary transfer effect). We review evidence of a further, higher-order generalization effect whereby intergroup contact also impacts more general cognitive processes outside of the intergroup context (i.e., tertiary transfer effects). We present a taxonomy of transfer effects that explains these generalization effects as distinct outcomes of the contact process yet contingent on the same component process, specifically, the assessment of the semantic distance between the target (e.g., contacted individual) and the frame (e.g., group prototype). This conceptualization provides an explanatory framework for uniting the disparate forms of transfer effect in the contact literature, clarifying why primary and secondary transfer effects are facilitated by low semantic distance and why contact is more cognitively demanding under conditions of high semantic distance, but with greater potential for cognitive growth.

Secondary Transfer Effects of Intergroup Contact

2012 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Schmid ◽  
Miles Hewstone ◽  
Beate Küpper ◽  
Andreas Zick ◽  
Ulrich Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Secondary Transfer

scholarly journals Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact: Alternative accounts and underlying processes.

2010 ◽  
Vol 99 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Tausch ◽  
Miles Hewstone ◽  
Jared B. Kenworthy ◽  
Charis Psaltis ◽  
Katharina Schmid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Transfer Effects ◽  
Secondary Transfer ◽  
Underlying Processes

scholarly journals Conditional secondary transfer effect: The moderating role of moral credentials and prejudice

2020 ◽  
pp. 136843022094040
Author(s):  
Inga Jasinskaja-Lahti ◽  
Loris Vezzali ◽  
Mona Ranta ◽  
Maria Giuseppina Pacilli ◽  
Mauro Giacomantonio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Intergroup Contact ◽  
Transfer Effect ◽  
Intergroup Attitudes ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Moral Licensing ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
Secondary Transfer ◽  
Group Members ◽  
Moderating Role

This survey experiment examined the role of prejudice and moral licensing as two moderators of the secondary transfer effect (STE) of positive and negative intergroup contact. We collected a quota-randomized sample of 299 majority Finns (52.6% female; experimental condition: n = 118, control condition: n = 181) in order to test whether moral credentials prevent attitude generalization (from primary towards secondary outgroup), particularly among prejudiced individuals. The results showed that STEs of both positive and negative contact were prevented among more prejudiced majority group members who had the possibility to obtain moral credentials in the moral licensing task. These results point at the unstable nature of attitude generalization in STE among prejudiced individuals and at the potential of a normative moral act to intervene into the generalization of intergroup attitudes following intergroup contact. We discuss these findings in relation to the literature on moral licensing and moral reinforcement, framing them in the context of an integration of contact research and research on morality in general.

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