Contact effects persist beyond the immediate contact situation.

Evidence

The generalization of effects problem. Do contact effects extend beyond the immediate situation? The summary results shown in Table 2 provide an affirmative answer. A total of 152 tests examined effects within the contact situation and focused exclusively on outgroup members directly involved in the contact. As shown in Table 2, their average effects correspond closely with the mean effects of our full analysis (mean r .231). — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 118

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contact’s prejudice reduction must generalize beyond the immediate situation to matter. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 51; Intergroup contact reduces prejudice even beyond the groups involved. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 119

Related

• Contact’s prejudice reduction must generalize beyond the immediate situation to matter. (similarity 0.91)
• Intergroup contact reduces prejudice even beyond the groups involved. (similarity 0.91)
• Intergroup contact research has expanded beyond prejudice to test trust, forgiveness, and ingroup perception. (similarity 0.87)
• Intergroup contact reduces prejudice across outgroups, and Allport’s conditions are helpful but not essential. (similarity 0.87)
• Intergroup contact is an established general mechanism for reducing prejudice across group types. (similarity 0.86)
• Stronger contact effects in rigorous studies would confirm the contact-prejudice link. (similarity 0.86)
• High group salience in studies explains contact’s broad generalization effects (similarity 0.86)
• Intergroup contact’s usefulness depends on attitude change generalizing beyond the immediate situation. (similarity 0.86)
• More rigorous contact studies show larger prejudice-reduction effects. (similarity 0.86)
• Randomized contact experiments yield near-large prejudice reduction effects. (similarity 0.86)
• Contact’s prejudice-reducing effect is causal, not a selection or publication artifact. (similarity 0.85)
• Knowing that ingroup friends interact with outgroup members reduces prejudice without any direct contact. (similarity 0.85)
• Early skeptics judged intergroup contact research premature and methodologically weak. (similarity 0.85)
• Theorists now seek what is necessary, not just helpful, for contact success (similarity 0.85)
• Contact studies vary in how they generalize findings beyond immediate settings. (similarity 0.85)