Allport personally prized his own contact chapter over others

Evidence

As his graduate assistant “go-for” (not for coffee but for books from the library), the first author remembers well that the Deutsch and Collins (1951) volume on interracial contact in public housing made an especially important impact on Allport’s thinking about intergroup contact. It also should be noted that Allport himself valued this chapter on contact. When he had to condense by 40 percent The Nature of Prejudice for its 1958 abridged paperback edition (Allport, 1958), he reduced chapter 16 on contact only slightly and retained all but three of the original references. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1718 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Allport treated his contact chapter as central, cutting little when abridging his book — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1718; Allport considered contact his most important chapter, trimming it least in the 1958 abridgment

Broader Connections

• Allport considered contact his most important chapter, trimming it least in the 1958 abridgment #corroborates (0.97)
• Allport treated his contact chapter as central, cutting little when abridging his book #expands (0.93) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1718