Decategorized personal contact may fail to change outgroup-wide attitudes
Evidence
Indeed, a real concern is that individuals may discount positive experiences with outgroup members as an exception to the rule. Consequently, Hewstone and Brown (1986) argued that, under decategorized contact, attitudes towards the outgroup as a whole would remain unchanged, due to the very conditions intended to produce the attitude change. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1809
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Personalized friendships with outgroup members may fail to change attitudes toward the whole group. (similarity 0.94)
- Decategorized contact risks failing to improve attitudes toward the outgroup as a whole. (similarity 0.92)
- Individualized contact fails to generalize positive attitudes beyond the specific person (similarity 0.88)
- Group category salience during contact enables attitude generalization to the outgroup (similarity 0.84)
- Category salience must persist alongside intimacy for contact effects to generalize (similarity 0.84)
- Individuating contact can fail to generalize to other group members (similarity 0.84)
- Decategorized contact reduces bias but fails to generalize beyond the individual (similarity 0.83)
- Personal disclosure plus category typicality generalizes contact benefits to new outgroup members (similarity 0.82)
- Friendly contact and generalized attitude change are in tension with each other (similarity 0.81)
- Face-to-face contact with out-group individuals can improve attitudes toward the whole group. (similarity 0.81)
- Keeping group identities salient during contact improves generalization of positive feelings (similarity 0.81)
- General outgroup knowledge is weak, but individuating knowledge reduces bias (similarity 0.81)
- Positive contact reduces prejudice most when group membership stays salient (similarity 0.80)
- Situation-specific evaluations of group members are constructed, not merely retrieved (similarity 0.79)
- Shared goals with outgroup members motivate accurate, counterstereotypic perception (similarity 0.79)