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19th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Krakow, Poland, 30 June - 04 July 2023, (Unpublished)
Evidence on intergroup contact suggests that the effects of intergroup contact can be generalised to other outgroups not involved in the contact situation, which is known as the secondary transfer effect of intergroup contact (STE; Pettigrew, 2009). Accordingly, this research looked at the impact of rarely studied STE in two novel contexts: Turkey (261 Turks and 243 Kurds) and Chile (123 non-indigenous Chileans). We investigated whether and how positive versus negative contact between advantaged and disadvantaged native groups (Turks and Kurds in Turkey and non-indigenous and indigenous Chileans in Chile) may shape support for the rights of immigrants as secondary outgroups (Syrian refugees and Haitian immigrants, respectively) via positive and negative emotion generalisation. Across two studies and controlling for the effects of contact with secondary outgroups, results mostly confirm that both positive and negative contact with the primary outgroup are associated with more and less support, respectively, for policies benefiting the secondary outgroups via emotion generalisation mechanism. These findings provide novel evidence on how positive and negative interactions between proximal advantaged and disadvantaged native groups can affect political solidarity with severely disadvantaged, newcomer secondary outgroups positively and negatively and that positive and negative emotion generalisation mediate this link.