Allport anticipated whether group salience matters in intergroup contact

Evidence

Allport (1954/ 1979) also foresaw research which promotes intergroup encounters that retain relatively high levels of group salience (Hewstone & Brown, 1986) when he included in his comprehensive list of key “Kinds of Contact” that it was important to ask, “Is the contact perceived in terms of intergroup relations or not perceived as such?” (p. 263). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1841

Categorization

• XREF: Directly ties to the decategorization vs. recategorization debate in intergroup contact theory, later developed by Brewer & Miller and Gaertner. — connects to: Intergroup contact most strongly and reliably predicts willingness to mix with the outgroup — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 43