{"id":36748,"date":"2014-06-23T02:34:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T02:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36748"},"modified":"2014-06-23T02:34:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T02:34:18","slug":"creating-positive-out-group-attitudes-through-intergroup-couple-friendships-and-implications-for-compassionate-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36748","title":{"rendered":"Creating positive out-group attitudes through intergroup couple friendships and implications for compassionate love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0265407514522369\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Creating positive out-group attitudes through intergroup couple friendships and implications for compassionate love<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spr.sagepub.com\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Social and Personal Relationships<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online before print: 2014-02-10<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0265407514522369\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0265407514522369<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:welkerk@wayne.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Keith M. Welker<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richslatcher.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Richard B. Slatcher<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynzey Baker<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aron.socialpsychology.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Arthur Aron<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Psychology<br \/>\n<em>State University of New York, Stony Brook<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Building personal relationships with out-group members is an important catalyst of positive intergroup attitudes. In a 2 \u00d7 2 experimental design, Caucasian and African American individuals and couples were randomly assigned to interact in either cross-race or same-race individual dyads and couple pairs. Participants completed pretest measures of race attitudes and engaged in a high self-disclosure closeness-induction task with an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ingroups_and_outgroups\" target=\"_blank\">in-group or out-group<\/a> race member in pairs of couples or individuals and completed measures of self-disclosure and intergroup attitudes. These results suggest that intergroup contact in the presence of romantic partners may be particularly effective for improving intergroup attitudes. We explore the implications of these results for developing compassionate love toward out-groups.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/spr.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2014\/02\/07\/0265407514522369.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creating positive out-group attitudes through intergroup couple friendships and implications for compassionate love Journal of Social and Personal Relationships Published online before print: 2014-02-10 DOI: 10.1177\/0265407514522369 Keith M. Welker Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Richard B. Slatcher, Associate Professor of Psychology Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Lynzey Baker Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Arthur Aron, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125],"tags":[17540,17539,3773,17541,17542,17543,17544,17545],"class_list":["post-36748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","tag-art-aron","tag-arthur-aron","tag-journal-of-social-and-personal-relationships","tag-keith-m-welker","tag-keith-welker","tag-lynzey-baker","tag-richard-b-slatcher","tag-richard-slatcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}