The role of inter-ethnic online friendships in prejudice reduction in post-conflict societies: Evidence from Serbia, Croatia and Cyprus
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Highlights：
• Interethnic online contact via social networks has potential to reduce prejudice.
• Online contact reduces prejudice by reducing anxiety and perceived intergroup threat, similar to direct contact.
• The effects of online contact were investigated in three post-conflict societies: Serbia, Croatia and Cyprus.
• Online friendships predicted more positive out-group attitudes over and above direct interethnic contact.
• Mediation was found for the combined sample, but not consistently for separate countries.
摘要
•Interethnic online contact via social networks has potential to reduce prejudice.•Online contact reduces prejudice by reducing anxiety and perceived intergroup threat, similar to direct contact.•The effects of online contact were investigated in three post-conflict societies: Serbia, Croatia and Cyprus.•Online friendships predicted more positive out-group attitudes over and above direct interethnic contact.•Mediation was found for the combined sample, but not consistently for separate countries.
论文关键词：Online friendships,Out-group attitudes,Intergroup anxiety,Perceived ethnic threat,Post-conflict societies
论文评审过程：Received 18 June 2016, Revised 28 July 2017, Accepted 28 July 2017, Available online 1 August 2017, Version of Record 4 August 2017.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.07.041
