The Effects Of Imagining Intergroup Contact On Implicit And Explicit Prejudice Toward Homosexuals

How to effectively reduce intergroup bias is an important topic of academic research in social psychology. Positive intergroup contact to improve intergroup relations has become an effective strategy in which imagination intergroup contact has become a new way of intergroup contact, breaking the shortcomings of traditional direct or expanding sexual contact, regardless of time and conditions of bondage, can effectively improve intergroup relations reduce intergroup bias. Characteristics and requirements in order to reduce the interference effects of social expectations, to objectively explore the attitudes of foreign groups in this study using a self-report questionnaire and Implicit Association Test to measure a combination of explicit and implicit prejudice. This study selected a special target groups- gay- as outgroup, by setting two experiments designed to investigate the maximization of imagination intergroup contact type, extent, impact of gender bias on the inside and outside, as well as the effect of and future prospects. Experiment used a 3 × 2 between subjects’ design, type and gender imagination to explore the international contact group on gay and outside the biases. The results show: active imagination can effectively reduce contact with internal and external bias improve intergroup attitudes; there is no significant difference between men and women on the inside and outside bias. To further investigate the effect of imagination task, used in the second experiment was designed to test between 3 × 2, and to explore the extent to imagine sexual contact and gender prejudice against gay men inside and outside influence. The results show that: the depth of intergroup contact can effectively reduce the internal and external bias, more women than men showed less implicit bias, but outside there was no significant difference in the apparent attitude.