How to Get Along: Prosocial Intergroup Behavior Effects on Prosocial Intergroup Attitudes as a Potential Novel Pathway to Improve Intergroup Relations

如何相处：亲社会群体间行为对亲社会群体态度的影响作为改善群体间关系的潜在新途径

• 批准号: 2888127
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Durham University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2888127
• 关键词: How; Get; Along; Prosocial; Intergroup

With polarization across group divides on the rise worldwide, promoting intergroup cooperation is crucial for well functioning societies. This project will examine underexplored foundational mechanisms in intergroup processes and investigate newly developed methods for promoting intergroup cooperation. The methods researchers currently employ to promote prosociality between groups are limited in their effectiveness when applied to real-world situations. This is because researchers often target negative, resistant-tochangeattitudes towards the other group ('cause'), and believe prosocial intergroup behavior will follow ('effect'). This project suggests that in order to increase prosocial behavior,interventions need to target behavior directly ('cause'), and prosocial attitudes will follow ('effect'). This research investigates this suggestion by examining intergroup attitude behavior causation both longitudinally and experimentally. The first study will use state of the art longitudinal statistical modeling and high frequency measurement bursts to address this long-neglected 'causal sequence' problem in intergroup attitude-behavior research within UK citizens as they go about their daily lives. The second study will experimentally investigate the causal sequence of intergroup attitudes and behavior, above and beyond the first, by seeing how the past behavior and attitudes of multiple participants affect their interactions during laboratory simulated conflict. The final study will test the processes above in a laboratory simulation of real-world conflict, involving multiple groups. This research is important because it addresses long-standing theoretical gaps in an important area of research and offers practical and easy to implement solutions for one of the most difficult and enduring problems of the modern world: encouraging people to get along.

随着全球范围内群体分歧的两极分化加剧，促进群体间合作对于社会的良好运转至关重要。该项目将研究群体间过程中尚未探索的基本机制，并研究促进群体间合作的新开发方法。研究人员目前用来促进群体之间亲社会性的方法在应用于现实世界时效果有限。这是因为研究人员经常针对另一群体采取消极的、抵制改变的态度（“原因”），并相信亲社会的群体间行为将会随之而来（“结果”）。该项目表明，为了增加亲社会行为，干预措施需要直接针对行为（“原因”），亲社会态度随之而来（“结果”）。本研究通过纵向和实验研究群体间态度行为因果关系来调查这一建议。第一项研究将使用最先进的纵向统计模型和高频测量突发来解决英国公民日常生活中群体间态度行为研究中长期被忽视的“因果序列”问题。第二项研究将通过实验研究多个参与者过去的行为和态度如何影响他们在实验室模拟冲突期间的互动，从而超越第一项研究，对群体间态度和行为的因果顺序进行研究。最终研究将在涉及多个群体的现实世界冲突的实验室模拟中测试上述过程。这项研究很重要，因为它解决了一个重要研究领域长期存在的理论空白，并为现代世界最困难和持久的问题之一：鼓励人们相处提供了实用且易于实施的解决方案。