Causal effect of intergroup contact on exclusionary attitudes.

ABSTRACT: The effect of intergroup contact has long been a question central to social scientists. As political and technological changes bring increased international migration, understanding intergroup contact is increasingly important to scientific and policy debates. Unfortunately, limitations in causal inference using observational data and the practical inability to experimentally manipulate demographic diversity has limited scholars' ability to address the effects of intergroup contact. Here, I report the results of a randomized controlled trial testing the causal effects of repeated intergroup contact, in which Spanish-speaking confederates were randomly assigned to be inserted, for a period of days, into the daily routines of unknowing Anglo-whites living in homogeneous communities in the Un

SUBMITTER: Enos RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3956183 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature