We investigated intergroup contact's cognitively liberalizing function by testing it's association with socio‐cognitive skills (perspective‐taking and empathy skills, and cognitive flexibility) and group‐based ideologies (ethnocentrism and social dominance orientation [SDO]) among a majority (Turks) and minority (Kurds) status group (total N = 483). We further examined whether these relationships were provided by contact's primary intergroup function—more positive attitudes toward the contacted group. Multigroup structural equation modeling analyses demonstrated that high quality cross‐group friendships were directly and negatively related to both ethnocentrism and SDO among the minority group. These associations were mediated by positive outgroup attitudes among the majority group. For both groups, perspective‐taking and empathy were significantly predicted by lower levels of ethnocentrism and SDO. Contact also indirectly led to higher cognitive flexibility among both groups. Findings highlight the need to explore more extensively contact's psychological outcomes at the individual level, beyond changing outgroup attitudes.

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超越群体间态度的转变：群体间联系与社会认知技能和基于群体的意识形态的联系

我们通过测试大多数人（土耳其人）和其他人的社会认知技能（观点和同情能力以及认知灵活性）和基于群体的意识形态（种族中心主义和社会主导倾向[SDO]）与群体间联系的认知自由化功能之间的关系，来研究这种关系。少数民族（Kurds）状态组（总计N= 483）。我们进一步检查了这些关系是否是由联系者的主要群体间功能提供的，即对接触者群体的更积极态度。多组结构方程模型分析表明，少数族裔之间高质量的跨群体友谊与民族中心主义和SDO都具有正相关和负相关性。这些联系是由多数群体中积极的群体外态度所介导的。对于这两个群体，较低的种族中心主义和SDO水平可显着预测观点和同情心。接触还间接导致了两组之间更高的认知灵活性。研究结果强调，除了改变外在态度之外，还需要在个人层面上更广泛地探索接触者的心理结果。