a University of Innsbruck.
b University of Innsbruck.
J Soc Psychol. 2019;159(3):344-348. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2018.1489367. Epub 2018 Sep 27.
One correlational study examined whether virtual contact via Facebook is positively related to intergroup relations. The followers of two online campaigns from Iran and Israel-whose countries have been in a politically hostile relationship since the 1980s-indicated the amount of direct and indirect virtual (Facebook) and real-life outgroup contact they have had, a number of quality and affective judgments about that contact, and completed an affective prejudice measure about the respective outgroup. Overall, contact was negatively associated with affective prejudice, providing support for the contact hypothesis in a specific and exclusively virtual setting with citizens of hostile nations. Previously experienced real-life contact did not moderate the results, suggesting that virtual contact has an independent link to positive outgroup attitudes.
一项相关性研究考察了通过 Facebook 进行的虚拟接触是否与群体间关系呈正相关。来自伊朗和以色列的两个在线运动的追随者（这两个国家自 20 世纪 80 年代以来一直处于政治敌对关系）表示，他们在 Facebook 上进行了直接和间接的虚拟接触以及现实生活中的对外群体接触，对这些接触进行了一些质量和情感判断，并完成了对各自外群体的情感偏见测量。总的来说，接触与情感偏见呈负相关，这为在具有敌对国家公民的特定且完全虚拟的环境中接触假设提供了支持。之前的现实生活接触并没有调节结果，这表明虚拟接触与对外群体的积极态度有独立的联系。
