Learning facts about outgroups is not the main way contact reduces prejudice

Evidence

Although Allport suggested that stereotypes about outgroups would change via positive intergroup contact, relatively few studies have examined stereotypes as dependent measures. Although contact with outgroup members is generally associated with less negative stereotypes of the outgroup as a whole, we think that as stereotypes and group variability estimates are assessed in the future, our understanding of the processes underlying them will continue to expand. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1846

Categorization

• QUESTION: Curious whether contact changing stereotypes vs. attitudes vs. anxiety are genuinely dissociable outcomes or just underpowered measures.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1846
• XREF: connects to: Contact alone does not enable fluent multi-ethnic interaction. — Sivamohan Valluvan, Conviviality and Multiculture: A…, 17; Demographic controls do not explain intergroup contact effects on reconciliation. — Linda R. Tropp and Diala Hawi and Thomas C. O’Brien and Mirona Gheorghiu and Alexandra Zetes and David Butz, Intergroup Contact and the Potential…, 392