Demographic controls do not explain intergroup contact effects on reconciliation.

Evidence

Across both studies, parallel regressions were conducted with participant age, gender, level of education, and socio-economic status entered as control variables when predicting intergroup outcomes; these analyses yielded identical patterns of results as those without the demographic controls, and the control variables rarely added to prediction of the intergroup outcomes. — Linda R. Tropp and Diala Hawi and Thomas C. O’Brien and Mirona Gheorghiu and Alexandra Zetes and David Butz, Intergroup Contact and the Potential…, 392

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Learning facts about outgroups is not the main way contact reduces prejudice — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1846; Cross-group prejudice correlation shows attitudes are not driven by intergroup contact

Broader Connections

• Learning facts about outgroups is not the main way contact reduces prejudice #complicates (0.80) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1846
• Cross-group prejudice correlation shows attitudes are not driven by intergroup contact #corroborates (0.75)