Tez Türü: Doktora
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: University of Keele, School of Psychology, Social Psychology, İngiltere
Tez Danışmanı: Dr. Huseyin Chakal
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2022
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Desteklendiği Program: Diğer
Özet:
Through a series of six studies (Studies 1, 5, and 6 involves two
groups), this thesis focuses on a relatively understudied dimension of
intergroup contact, i.e. secondary transfer effect (STE; Pettigrew,
2009). More specifically, the thesis investigates (1) whether and how
contact with a primary proximal group is associated with support for
social change benefitting the secondary distal group by creating
political solidarity in conflictual contexts, (2) how different
dimensions of contact shape such a generalisation process, and (3) what
alternative mechanisms underlie this generalisation process.
In Chapter 4 (Study 1), I showed that positive contact between Turks and
Kurds was indirectly associated with their greater support for Syrian
refugees’ rights via positive attitude generalisation and vice versa for
negative contact. Moreover, the perceived threat from Syrian refugees
weakened the attitude generalisation process in the context of Turkey.
In Chapter 5 (Studies 2 and 3), in Cyprus, I showed that Turkish
immigrants’ quantity and quality of contact with Turkish Cypriots were
indirectly associated with increased willingness to live with the Greek
Cypriots and greater support for a peaceful solution to the Cyprus
problem via positive attitude generalisation. In addition, perceived
ingroup reputation strengthened these indirect associations.
In Chapter 6 (Studies 4-6), I tested positive and negative emotion
generalisation processes as alternative underlying mechanisms of the STE
in three contexts: Chile, Romania, Turkey. I found that positive and
negative contact between proximal primary outgroups were indirectly
associated with support for distal secondary outgroup rights via
positive and negative emotions generalisation. However, such
transferable effects of positive vs negative contact are mostly
explained by the corresponding emotion generalisation process.
All in all, across six studies, this thesis corroborated previously
identified processes and uncovered additional key processes that can
implement the STE mechanism as a tool for prejudice reduction and
political solidarity with distal (mostly) severely disadvantaged
outgroups in conflictual settings.