Contact reduces hostility even amid conflict and heavy segregation, mainly affectively.

Evidence

The consistent pattern of the data described herein provides strong support for continuing and expanding research into intergroup contact processes, even where there is intergroup conflict and a high degree of segregation between the different communities (see Tausch, Kenworthy, & Hewstone, in press). As discussed, there is evidence that, primarily through affective processes, contact can reduce prejudice and hostility between groups. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1843

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Even under apartheid and segregation, intergroup contact reduced prejudice. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 227