Individuating contact can fail to generalize to other group members

Evidence

Hewstone and Brown (1986) argued, in contrast, that by focusing solely on individuating information, the outgroup member would not be seen as an outgroup member at all, and thus any positive outcomes that result from the interaction would fail to generalize to other members of the category. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1808

Categorization

• XREF: This is the core theoretical tension in the contact literature — generalization failure — that directly engages the vault’s contact-theory claims.