Intergroup contact has long been touted as a premier means to reduce prejudice and forge positive bonds with outgroups. Given its origins in psychological research, it is perhaps of little surprise that contact is expected to induce change within people over time. Yet using random-intercepts crossed-lagged modeling that parses within-person from between-person effects, Sengupta et al. (2023) recently found no evidence of within-person change, only unexplained between-person effects, regarding contact's effects on outgroup solidarity in New Zealand. We conceptually replicated their study, focusing on modern racism and an affect thermometer as the outcomes, in a three-wave study of White British participants (NT1 = 946, NT2 = 667, NT3 = 591) and their attitudes toward foreigners. We replicated the general pattern described by Sengupta and colleagues, confirming between-person effects without within-person effects, suggestive of third-variable explanations. As a novel finding, we discover that differences in social dominance orientation (SDO) and right-wing authoritarianism (RWA) can account for the observed between-person effects. Problematically for contact theory, contact effects, at least those relying on self-reported accounts, increasingly appear to reflect differences between people (person factors) rather than being context-driven (situation factors)-such that those lower (vs. higher) in SDO and RWA are more favorable toward outgroups, rather than intergroup contact bringing about positive outcomes itself. Implications for theory development and intervention are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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复制和扩展 Sengupta 等人。 (2023)：接触预测人内纵向外群体偏见不会发生变化。


长期以来，群体间接触一直被认为是减少偏见和与外群体建立积极联系的首要手段。鉴于其起源于心理学研究，随着时间的推移，接触有望引起人们内心的变化，这也许并不奇怪。然而，Sengupta 等人使用随机截取交叉滞后模型来解析人内效应和人际效应。 （2023）最近发现，关于接触对新西兰外群体团结的影响，没有证据表明人体内发生变化，只有无法解释的人与人之间的影响。我们在概念上复制了他们的研究，重点关注现代种族主义和情感温度计作为结果，对英国白人参与者（NT1 = 946，NT2 = 667，NT3 = 591）及其对外国人的态度进行了三波研究。我们复制了 Sengupta 及其同事描述的一般模式，确认了人与人之间的影响，而没有人内影响，暗示了第三变量的解释。作为一项新颖的发现，我们发现社会支配取向（SDO）和右翼威权主义（RWA）的差异可以解释观察到的人与人之间的影响。对于接触理论来说，有问题的是，接触效应，至少是那些依赖于自我报告的账户，越来越多地反映了人与人之间的差异（个人因素），而不是环境驱动的（情境因素）——因此，那些在SDO 和 RWA 更倾向于外群体，而不是群体间接触本身带来积极结果。讨论了理论发展和干预的意义。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。