Need Fulfillment During Intergroup Contact: Three Experience Sampling Studies.

ABSTRACT: One challenge of modern intergroup contact research has been the question of when and why an interaction is perceived as positive and improves intergroup relations. We propose to consider the perceived fulfillment of the situationally most relevant need. We conducted three intensive longitudinal studies with recent migrants to capture their interactions with the majority out-group (N_measurements = 10,297; N_participants = 207). The situational need fulfillment mechanism is consistently a strong predictor of perceived interaction quality and positive out-group attitudes following intergroup interactions. The model is specific to out-group contact, robust to various need types, and works at least as well as Allport's contact conditions. As one of the first

SUBMITTER: Kreienkamp J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12044218 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature