More positive contact [with an outgroup] reduces prejudice. No matter how you measure it, no matter how you set up your study design, once there’s a positive contact situation, you lower prejudice towards the outgroup... These effects tend to be stronger among those higher on social dominance orientation and those higher on right-wing authoritarianism, which makes intergroup contact quite a good and efficient strategy to reduce prejudice among those who seem to be initially prejudiced towards outgroups.- Kristof Dhont
Recent psychological research on intergroup contact and human-animal relations has implications for effective animal advocacy strategy. But what are the most action-relevant findings? And how can researchers maximize their positive impact for animals?
Kristof’s most action-relevant work for animal advocates and the audience of his work (1:29)
Finding the balance between academic rigor and making work accessible to advocates (6:15)
SHARKLab and the academic field of human-animal relations (13:28)
Connections between right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and animal exploitation (26:02)
“Vegetarianism threat,” its correlates, and its causes (41:12)
The pros and cons of advocacy focusing on children (55:38)
Research on human intergroup interactions and what this suggests about farmed animal advocacy (58:08)
The importance of intergroup contact (including between humans and animals) being experienced as positive, in order to improve attitudes towards outgroups (1:12:32)
The “secondary transfer effect” of intergroup contact, where reducing prejudice towards one outgroup also reduces prejudice towards other outgroups (1:14:52)
How research careers and training in academia compare to research careers in nonprofits and more independent skills development (1:18:05)
Advice on PhD applications and on research careers (1:31:16)
The interaction between researchers in the academic sphere and the “effective animal advocacy” sphere (1:47:55)
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