Formal institutional endorsement strengthens contact’s prejudice-reducing effects

Evidence

Intergroup contact will also have more positive effects when it is backed by explicit support from authorities and social institutions. Authority sanction establishes norms of acceptance and guidelines for how members of different groups should interact with each other. Field research has demonstrated the importance of authority sanction in military (Landis, Hope, & Day, 1984), business (Morrison & Herlihy, 1992), and religious settings (Parker, 1968). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1673

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates the vault’s contact-theory list of optimal conditions — authority/institutional support is one of Allport’s four.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1673