Theorists now seek what is necessary, not just helpful, for contact success
Evidence
In turn, these trends beg the following question: If Allport’s optimal conditions are not essential for achieving positive intergroup outcomes, then what might be necessary? An answer to this central question is forming from the confluence of several new lines of contemporary research. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 228
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Intergroup contact is an established general mechanism for reducing prejudice across group types. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 239
Related
- No meta-analysis of intergroup contact research existed before this study. (similarity 0.90)
- Intergroup contact research has expanded beyond prejudice to test trust, forgiveness, and ingroup perception. (similarity 0.88)
- Intergroup contact is an established general mechanism for reducing prejudice across group types. (similarity 0.88)
- Allport’s optimal contact conditions enhance but are not necessary for reducing prejudice. (similarity 0.88)
- Intergroup contact reduces prejudice across outgroups, and Allport’s conditions are helpful but not essential. (similarity 0.87)
- Early skeptics judged intergroup contact research premature and methodologically weak. (similarity 0.87)
- Allport’s optimal contact conditions are facilitating rather than essential (similarity 0.87)
- Institutional support matters most for contact but backfires under competition or unequal status. (similarity 0.87)
- Allport’s optimal contact conditions facilitate but are not necessary for prejudice reduction (similarity 0.87)
- Stronger contact effects in rigorous studies would confirm the contact-prejudice link. (similarity 0.86)
- Negative factors limiting contact’s prejudice reduction remain the least understood (similarity 0.86)
- Intergroup contact theory originated in a 1947 synthesis of 102 propositions. (similarity 0.86)
- Intergroup contact reduces prejudice only under four specific optimal conditions. (similarity 0.86)
- Allport’s contact hypothesis has guided fifty years of intergroup research (similarity 0.86)
- Intergroup contact reduces prejudice even beyond the groups involved. (similarity 0.86)