Younger participants show greater prejudice change from contact than adults
Evidence
That college students yield significantly stronger average effects than do adults is consistent with Sears’s (1986) contentions that college students are generally more open to change than are older adults. — Thomas F. Pettigrew, Linda R. Tropp, A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup…, 190
Categorization
- XREF: Relevant to whether entrenched enmity-boundaries can be disassembled later in life, or only while identities are still forming.