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Examining the relationship between stereotypes, conceptualized as cognitive processes of biases, and affective (prejudice) and behavioral (discrimination) processes has recently gained greater importance. The aim of this article is to investigate the attitudes of Turkish students towards two groups of students from different nationalities from the Middle East and African Countries in the context of the Stereotype Content Model (SCM) and to to examine the relationship between the social distances of the groups towards each other and the conditions of intergroup contact. This research was applied to Turkish students (N=185, Nmale=77, Nfemale=108; Xage=20.71; SD=1.93) studying in different departments at Karabük University. The following scales were used in the research: Stereotype Content Scale, Intergroup Contact Conditions Scale, Social Distance Scale, Social Structural/Contextual Variables Scale. The results of the study revealed that favoritism (high competence, high affectionate) or denigration (low competence, low affectionate) were higher in Turkish students' stereotypes about both nations, rather than mixed content stereotypes (low competent, high affectionate, high competent, low affectionate). The predictive effect of all predictor variables on social distance (closeness) was tested with stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. In the results for Africans, the variables that hold on to the model are competitiveness, inter-group contact conditions and competence, respectively; In the results for Middle Easterners, the variables that cling to the model are intergroup contact conditions, affection and competitiveness, respectively, but when examined proportionally, the predictive percentage of intergroup contact conditions exceeds three times the sum of the other two.

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