Intergroup contact reduces prejudice best when group categories stay salient.

Evidence

Regarding when contact is most effective, we know that contact is typically more strongly associated with more positive out-group attitudes when category memberships remain salient during contact (see Brown & Hewstone, 2005). — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 556

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the classic Allport-adjacent intuition that contact works by de-emphasizing category membership; salient categories during contact predict better outcomes, directly complicating prior prejudice-reduction claims in the reader’s thread. — connects to: Deliberation reduces polarization by meeting Allport’s contact conditions and fostering common ingroup identity. — Didier Caluwaerts et al., Deliberation and Polarization: A…, 131; Changing how people categorize others can reduce intergroup threat. — Blake M. Riek, Eric W. Mania, and Samuel L. Gaertner, Intergroup Threat and Outgroup…, 168; Social harmony and redressing historical injustice can coexist through equal-power intergroup contact. — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations:…, 111
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 556