Salient group category awareness improves prejudice reduction during contact.

Evidence

For instance, increased salience of group representations during intergroup contact typically leads to greater reductions in prejudice toward the outgroup as a whole (Brown, Vivian, & Hewstone, 1999). And participants who do not think intergroup contact is important show far less prejudice reduction than those who regard it as important (Van Dick et al., 2004). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1713

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: This claims to overturn an older decategorization hypothesis; worth checking how salience interacts with friendship-based models.

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• Positive contact reduces prejudice most when group membership stays salient (similarity 0.88)
• Personalized intergroup contact reduces prejudice by making category boundaries less meaningful. (similarity 0.86)
• Group salience strengthens positive contact’s anxiety-reducing effect (similarity 0.86)
• Ignoring group membership during contact does not improve intergroup attitudes (similarity 0.86)
• Group category salience during contact enables attitude generalization to the outgroup (similarity 0.86)
• Salient categorization during intergroup contact can breed anxiety rather than reduce prejudice. (similarity 0.86)
• Category salience must persist alongside intimacy for contact effects to generalize (similarity 0.85)
• Prejudice reduction may not require eliminating perceived group differences (similarity 0.85)
• Mere knowledge that ingroup peers befriend outgroup members improves intergroup attitudes (similarity 0.84)
• Mere knowledge of a fellow in-group member’s contact with out-groups reduces prejudice. (similarity 0.84)
• Allport anticipated whether group salience matters in intergroup contact (similarity 0.84)
• Keeping group identities salient during contact improves generalization of positive feelings (similarity 0.84)