Intergroup contact is key to social cohesion, yet psychological barriers block engagement with diversity even when contact opportunities are abundant. We lack an advanced understanding of contact seeking because intergroup contact is often an independent variable in research, and studies on contact seeking have favoured experimental probing of selected factors or measured only broad behavioural intentions. This research carried out the first ecological tests of a novel multilayer-multivariate framework to contact seeking/avoiding. These tests were centred on a Muslim-led community contact-based initiative with visible support from local authorities following a terrorist attack. Non-Muslim Australian women (N = 1,347) contributed field data on their situated contact motivations, choices, and attendance at an intercultural educational stall; many (N = 559) completed a profiling test battery. Among those who responded to the initiative invite, the rate of taking up the high-salience contact opportunity in this heated setting was high and reflected multiple approach/avoidance motivations. Contact seeking/avoiding was not just allophilia/prejudice; it presented as new typologies of politicized solidarity, courage, apathy, and moral outrage. While intergroup predictors were significant across all profiling analyses, intrapersonal and interpersonal predictors also regularly contributed to explain variance in non-Muslims’ contact motivations and choices, confirming their multilayer-multivariate nature.

中文翻译：

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在盖头摊位寻求和避免与穆斯林接触：多层次、多层次的团结、勇气、冷漠和道德愤怒的证据

群际接触是社会凝聚力的关键，但即使接触机会丰富，心理障碍也会阻碍人们参与多样性。我们缺乏对联系寻求的深入理解，因为群体间联系通常是研究中的一个独立变量，而关于联系寻求的研究有利于对选定因素的实验探索或仅测量广泛的行为意图。这项研究对一种新颖的多层多变量框架进行了首次生态测试，以寻求/避免接触。这些测试集中在穆斯林领导的社区联系倡议上，在恐怖袭击后得到地方当局的明显支持。非穆斯林澳大利亚妇女（N = 1,347) 提供了有关他们所处的联系动机、选择和参加跨文化教育摊位的实地数据；许多 ( N =  559) 完成了电池的剖析测试。在响应主动邀请的人中，在这种激烈的环境中占据高显着性联系机会的比例很高，并反映了多种接近/回避的动机。寻求/避免接触不仅仅是异性恋/偏见；它表现为政治化的团结、勇气、冷漠和道德愤怒的新类型。虽然组间预测变量在所有分析分析中都很重要，但人际关系和人际关系预测变量也经常有助于解释非穆斯林接触动机和选择的差异，证实了它们的多层多元性质。