While recent research has started to pay more attention to the role of contact strategies on promoting intergroup harmony between Turkish and Kurdish communities, the effectiveness of a novel form of indirect contact strategy, E-contact—where participants engage in a cooperative and structured online interaction with an individual from the outgroup—has not yet been tested. Across two studies (N_{Study 1} = 110, N_{Study 2} = 176), we investigated the effects of E-contact among Turks on promoting positive attitudes and behavioral tendencies toward Kurds, testing outgroup trust and intergroup anxiety as mediators and incorporating a distinction between lower and higher self-disclosure conditions. As expected, E-contact led to more positive outgroup attitudes, as well as greater approach tendencies and decreased avoidance tendencies through increased outgroup trust (Studies 1 and 2) and reduced intergroup anxiety (Study 2). Study 2 also found that E-contact produced lower perceived interethnic conflict through increased outgroup trust. While both lower and higher personal disclosure conditions provided similar effects in the two studies, E-contact with heightened self-disclosure was especially effective at promoting more positive outgroup attitudes and reducing avoidance tendencies. Findings highlight potential benefits of using E-contact as a prejudice-reduction strategy in conflict settings.

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调查电子联系和自我披露在改善土耳其库尔德族际关系方面的作用

虽然最近的研究开始更多地关注联系策略在促进土耳其和库尔德社区之间的群际和谐方面的作用，但一种新型间接联系策略的有效性，即电子联系——参与者参与合作和结构化的在线互动与来自外群的个人 - 尚未经过测试。跨越两项研究（N_{研究 1}  = 110，N_{研究 2} = 176），我们调查了土耳其人之间的电子接触对促进对库尔德人的积极态度和行为倾向的影响，测试作为中介的外群体信任和群体间焦虑，并结合了较低和较高自我披露条件之间的区别。正如预期的那样，电子接触通过增加外群体信任（研究 1 和 2）和减少群体间焦虑（研究 2）导致更积极的外群体态度，以及更大的接近倾向和减少的回避倾向。研究 2 还发现，电子联系通过增加外群体信任产生较低的种族间冲突感知。虽然较低和较高的个人披露条件在两项研究中提供了相似的效果，高度自我披露的电子联系在促进更积极的外群体态度和减少回避倾向方面特别有效。调查结果强调了在冲突环境中使用电子联系作为减少偏见策略的潜在好处。