减少偏见,促进群体间的和谐与平等,想象中的群体间接触技术,基于与外群成员相遇的心理模拟,已被提议。尽管大量的研究为想象中的群体间接触在减少偏见方面的功效提供了支持,另一项研究引发了对其有效性的质疑。在这个实验中,我们将想象中的群体间接触与文化谦逊相结合,也就是说,一个面向他人的,对不同文化背景的人采取谦卑的态度,承认地位和权力的不平衡和特权。具体来说,我们测试了旨在在想象中的接触中引起文化谦卑的指示是否提高了其减少偏见和促进未来接触意图的有效性,与标准想象接触条件和控制想象任务相比。团体间焦虑被测试为文化上谦卑的想象接触对减少偏见和未来接触意图的影响的中介。我们发现文化上卑微的想象接触,与其他两个条件相比,减少了群体间焦虑,并对减少偏见和增加未来接触意向产生了间接影响。将通过重点讨论基于群体间接触的减少偏见技术中文化谦卑的融合来讨论研究结果。
To reduce prejudice and to promote intergroup harmony and equality, the imagined intergroup contact technique, based on the mental simulation of an encounter with an outgroup member, has been proposed. Though a substantial body of research has provided support for the efficacy of imagined intergroup contact in prejudice reduction, an alternative strand of research has raised questions about its effectiveness. In this experiment, we combined imagined intergroup contact with cultural humility, that is, an other-oriented, humble approach toward people with different cultural backgrounds, recognizing status and power imbalances and privileges. Specifically, we tested whether instructions aimed at eliciting cultural humility during imagined contact boosted its effectiveness in reducing prejudice and promoting future contact intentions, compared to a standard imagined contact condition and to a control imagination task. Intergroup anxiety was tested as a mediator of the effects of culturally humble imagined contact on reduced prejudice and on future contact intentions. We found that culturally humble imagined contact, compared to the two other conditions, reduced intergroup anxiety and yielded indirect effects on reduced prejudice and increased future contact intentions. The findings will be discussed by focusing on the integration of cultural humility in prejudice reduction techniques based on intergroup contact.