Applying a dual-process framework to in-depth interviews and survey data, this article explores behavioural manifestations of intercultural attitudes for white majority Norwegians. The article builds upon established literatures on social cognition showing that humans operate with two separate cognitive systems. Affective ‘automatic’ heuristics often generate negative stereotypes, aversive emotions and behavioural responses to ethnic diversities. In contrast, the ‘discursive’ cognitive system, which stores cultural scripts, motivates predominantly egalitarian aspirations and performances. As people balance their behaviours according to contextual evaluations of costs and benefits, the article’s findings indicate a tendency to practise openness and civility in public and spatio-temporally bounded encounters, and to reject or exclude the Other in half or more of privately made selection decisions.

本文将双过程框架应用于深度访谈和调查数据，探讨了挪威白人占多数的跨文化态度的行为表现。这篇文章建立在关于社会认知的既定文献的基础上，这些文献表明人类在两个独立的认知系统中运作。情感“自动”启发式通常会产生负面的刻板印象、厌恶情绪和对种族多样性的行为反应。相比之下，存储文化脚本的“话语”认知系统主要激发了平等主义的愿望和表现。当人们根据对成本和收益的上下文评估来平衡他们的行为时，文章的研究结果表明在公共和时空限制的遭遇中实践开放和文明的趋势，