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Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Vol. 7, No. 3, 221-237 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1368430204046109
© 2004 SAGE Publications

Effects of Intergroup Contact and Political Predispositions on Prejudice: Role of Intergroup Emotions

Daniel A. Miller

Eliot R. Smith

Purdue University

Diane M. Mackie

University of California, Santa Barbara

Two broad distal causes of prejudice are past history of intergroup contact and general political predispositions. Two studies investigate the extent to which these effects are mediated by emotions directed at the outgroup, as proposed by Intergroup Emotions Theory (Smith, 1993). In both studies, past intergroup contact and Social Dominance Orientation predict prejudice. as measured either by a feeling thermometer or the Modern Racism Scale. Furthermore, for both studies these effects are significantly mediated by intergroup emotions, above and beyond measures of stereotypes (stereotype endorsement in Study 1 and stereotype knowledge in Study 2) that were entered as alternative potential mediators. Stereotype endorsement also plays a significant mediational role in one case. Increased attention to the role of emotions in intergroup relations, including in the mediation of such powerful and well-known effects as those of intergroup contact and political predispositions, appears to be warranted.

Key Words: contact • intergroup emotion • prejudice • social dominance • stereotypes

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