Publications

Publication details [#51729]

Bastian, Brock, Abe Ata and Dean Lusher. 2009. Intergroup contact in context: The mediating role of social norms and group-based perceptions on the contact–prejudice link. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 33 (6) : 498–506.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

group interaction | intergroup communication | prejudice | social network | value

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This study of Muslim-non-Muslim intergroup contact among Australian secondary school children confirms the prejudice-reducing impact of intergroup contact, although group-based perceptions (of parental intergroup contact support and fairness of media representations) and social norms play a mediating role.