Richard Crisp has published widely on imagined contact hypothesis ).
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The contact hypothesis has proven to be highly effective in alleviating prejudice directed toward homosexuals.
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Crisp and Turner cite Allport's work as a strong influence on their imagined contact hypothesis.
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This new acceptance from the media can partially be explained by the contact hypothesis, aka intergroup contact theory.
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The general experimental paradigm used to test the effects of the imagined contact hypothesis utilizes two sets of instructions.
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These benefits all increase the likelihood for reduced outgroup prejudice, hence its use as a mechanism for the contact hypothesis.
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They also argued that evidence of the imagined contact hypothesis improving implicit attitudes counters the possibility of demand characteristics influencing results.
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The contact hypothesis ( Gordon Allport, 1954 ) is one area of psychology that focuses on positive aspects of intergroup relations.
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Challenges to the perceptual expertise models are the mixed evidence for the interracial contact hypothesis, and the varied results of the training effect.
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Indeed, research indicates that imagining contact versus simply imagining the outgroup member is important to obtain the positive benefits associated with the imagined contact hypothesis.