The factors blocking prejudice reduction are less understood than facilitators

Evidence

But the meta-analytic data reveal that the knowledge gained from past contact research is limited by its primary emphasis on positive features of the contact situation. Factors that curb contact’s ability to reduce prejudice are now the most problematic theoretically, yet the least understood. These negative factors, ranging from intergroup anxiety (Stephan & Stephan, 1985) to authoritarianism and normative restraints (Pettigrew, Wagner, Stellmacher, & Christ, 2006), deserve to become a major focus of future contact research. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 232 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Negative factors limiting contact’s prejudice reduction remain the least understood — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 232; The causal links between prejudice’s escalating stages remain empirically unconfirmed — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1295

Broader Connections

• Negative factors limiting contact’s prejudice reduction remain the least understood #corroborates (0.97) — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 232