000K utf8 1100 $c2015 1500 eng 2050 urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20160728-152444-7 3000 Gu, Yun 3010 Mueller, Annika 3010 Nielsen, Ingrid 3010 Shachat, Jason 3010 Smyth, Russell 4000 Improving Intergroup Relations through Actual and Imagined Contact$dA Field Experiment with Malawian Shopkeepers and Chinese Migrants [Gu, Yun] 4209 We examine the ability of intergroup contact to ameliorate the effect of in-group bias on economic outcomes. Specifically, we employ randomized experiments to test whether actual and imagined contact is effective in reducing prejudice between indigenous Malawian shopkeepers (in-group), and their Chinese migrant counterparts (out-group), and test the stability of these changes over time. We find differing results with actual contact. Local Malawians’ attitude towards Chinese migrants did not improve, but their willingness to spend time with them did. In contrast, actual contact led to improvement in the Chinese migrants’ attitude toward local Malawians, but did not increase their willingness to spend time with them. These effects persisted over a time period of at least ten days. Imagined contact had no impact on Malawians’ attitude towards or willingness to spend time with Chinese migrants. 4950 https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:464-20160728-152444-7$xR$3Volltext$534 4961 https://duepublico2.uni-due.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00041067 5010 32 5051 320 5550 actual contact 5550 Chinese migrants in Africa 5550 field experiment 5550 imagined contact 5550 prejudice