Social identity complexity mediates how intergroup contact shapes out-group attitudes

Evidence

This chapter has highlighted that diverse social experiences in the form of intergroup contact or need for and/or threat to distinctiveness may not only help explain variations in social identity complexity, but that social identity complexity may be a key mediating variable that helps explain how contact and distinctiveness needs and/or threat affect out-group attitudes. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 589

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s thread: contact reduces prejudice only insofar as it raises perceived complexity of one’s own in-group set — a mediating account that would complicate a naive contact-prevents-prejudice claim. — connects to: Student-body mixing drives cross-group attitudes, not school type — Miles Hewstone and Joanne Hughes, Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: the…, 20
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 589