Four mediating processes link contact to attitude change.

Evidence

Recent work suggests that four interrelated processes operate through contact and mediate attitude change: learning about the outgroup, changing behavior, generating affective ties, and ingroup reappraisal. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Intergroup Contact Theory, 38

Categorization

• DEFINE: The chapter’s central four-process framework — learning, behavior change, affective ties, and ingroup reappraisal — introduced in a single enumerable list.
• XREF: connects to: Effective depolarization interventions target thoughts, relationships, and institutions. — Rachel Hartman et al., Interventions to Reduce Partisan…, 96