2024/01/01 by Travis Lim, Rebecca Neel, Eric Hehman · 1 voice · 7 citations
Chemistry · Engineering · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Behavioral Health and Interventions #Chemistry #Contact hypothesis #Contact theory #Engineering #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #Group (periodic table) #Prejudice (legal term) #Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1525/collabra.127426
published in Collabra Psychology 10(1) (University of California Press)
openalex publication_date 2024/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/03
Intergroup contact is robustly associated with lower prejudice. However, nearly all contact research to date has examined a narrow range of groups, raising the possibility that its effects are restricted to only some types of groups. Across two studies (total N = 2163), we tested whether the contact-prejudice relationship was identical for a broad sample of groups (k = 80), whether group properties moderated this relationship, and whether the relationship depended on the type of intergroup contact. Results indicate that contact was consistently associated with lower prejudice across all groups, group properties, and measures of contact. Together, our results broadly support intergroup contact theory: contact is negatively associated with prejudice across groups with a wide array of distinct group properties.