Changing stereotypes without reducing hostility does little because stereotypes result from prejudice

Evidence

Finally, attempts to change negative outgroup stereotypes, without changing the underlying hostility, would do little good, because negative stereotypes are not the cause of prejudice. Rather they are a consequence of prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 844

Allport clearly recognized the power of social categories to reinforce and exacerbate group hostilities. But the core problem to rectify was intergroup animosity. Although the elimination of all social categories would logically be a way to do this, doing away with social categories was recognized not to be a feasible solution, because categorization is fundamental to perception. Finally, attempts to change negative outgroup stereotypes, without changing the underlying hostility, would do little good, because negative stereotypes are not the cause of prejudice. Rather they are a consequence of prejudice. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 844

Categorization

• XREF: Directly inverts the common policy intuition that education and stereotype correction reduce prejudice — connects to media-effects and contact-theory literatures.
• QUESTION: If stereotypes are consequences rather than causes, what actually works to reduce prejudice besides attacking hostility directly?
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 844