Table 3.

Test of the moderating role of individualism–collectivism (n = 322).

		Step 1: social distance		Step 2: cooperation
		β	SE	β	SE
Controlled variable	Age	0.024	0.06	−0.015	0.02
	Educational background	−0.120	0.48	−0.039	0.15
Predictive variable	Positive inter-group contact	0.392***	0.03	0.303***	0.10
	Individualism			−0.278**	0.10
	Collectivism			−0.166	0.14
	Social Distance			0.406**	0.14
	Positive inter-group contact × Individualism			−0.01*	0.003
	Social Distance × Individualism			−0.01*	0.004
	∆R2	0.346***		0.432***
	F	55.99		34.06