The Dark Side of Valuing the Instrumentality of Diversity - Outgroup Devaluation as a Reaction on Non-Useful Intergroup Contact in Persons Holding Pro-Diversity Beliefs

本研究项目旨在填补群体间接触和多样性信念心理学研究中的一个核心空白。虽然以前的研究表明，不同社会群体成员之间的私人积极接触可以改善群体间的关系，但它在很大程度上忽略了负面群体间接触的后果。目前的研究项目结合了负面接触的影响与批评的多样性的商业案例，到目前为止，只有在理论上接近的研究。它被认为是持有亲多样性的信念（即人的价值多样性的工具的原因）的人的反应，以增加偏见和减少愿意从事未来的接触对参与外群体的不同群体的无用的互动。为了验证这一假设，在五个实验研究中，系统地操纵不同群体的合作结果。此外，还应进行具有代表性样本的纵向研究。这个项目的结果可能会提供第一个经验证据的潜在负面影响有用的集中在多样性的信念。

The present research project aims at closing a central gap in the psychological research on intergroup contact and diversity beliefs. Although previous research on intergroup contact could show that private positive contact between members of different social groups improves intergroup relations, it has largely ignored the consequences of negative intergroup contact. The present research project combines research on the effects of negative contact with criticism on the business case of diversity that has until now only been approached theoretically.It is assumed that persons holding pro-diversity beliefs (i.e. persons valuing diversity for instrumental reasons) react to non-useful interactions in diverse groups with increased prejudice and decreased willingness to engage in future contact towards involved outgroups. To test this assumption, the results of cooperation in diverse groups are systematically manipulated in five experimental studies. In addition, a longitudinal study with a representative sample shall be carried out. Results of this project will potentially offer first empirical evidence for a potential negative effect of usefulness-focused beliefs in diversity.