Intergroup contact imposes a cognitive strain of self-regulation on prejudiced majority members

Evidence

According to Allport, people generally feel that “most of the business of life can go with less effort if we stick together with our own kind” (p. 18). We trust ingroupers because they are convenient, and outgroup members are a strain. Recent research documents exactly how true this is. For example, prejudiced whites dealing with a black person are distracted by the burden of regulating their own behavior (Richeson & Shelton, 2003). — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 346

According to Allport, people generally feel that “most of the business of life can go with less effort if we stick together with our own kind” (p. 18). We trust ingroupers because they are convenient, and outgroup members are a strain. Recent research documents exactly how true this is. For example, prejudiced whites dealing with a black person are distracted by the burden of regulating their own behavior (Richeson & Shelton, 2003). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 346

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical support for Allport’s contact-theory premises that the vault’s prejudice clusters rest on.
• DEFINE: Directly quotes and updates Allport’s original formulation about ingroup convenience.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 346; , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 346