Intergroup contact can reduce uncritical preference for one’s own group.

Evidence

Upon finding that contact with minority groups was related to less positive views of the in-group, Pettigrew (1997) argued that intergroup contact may attune individuals to the possibility that the in-group’s norms, customs, and lifestyles may not be the only acceptable ways to manage their social world and may prompt individuals to reassess their views of their in-group. He refers to this process as “deprovincialization.” — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 563

Categorization

• XREF: Directly complicates the Allport contact literature: contact does not just humanize out-groups, it relativizes and devalues the in-group itself — a mechanism usually left out of contact-hypothesis accounts. — connects to: Everyday commercial contact coexisted with total prohibition of residential and social mixing — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1419; Intergroup contact most strongly and reliably predicts willingness to mix with the outgroup — Miles Hewstone and Ed Cairns and Alberto Voci and Juergen Hamberger and Ulrike Niens, Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and…, 43
• SEED: Angle: deprovincialization could reframe debates about multicultural exposure eroding national identity — the in-group loss is not collateral damage but a feature of prejudice reduction.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 563