Intergroup contact: Panacea for prejudice?

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Increasing perceived variability reduces prejudice and discrimination (2011, background): “The beneficial effect of intergroup contact may be due to the fact that contact increases the complexity of theperceptionof the out-group, thus overriding theuse of stereotypes to categorize and evaluate individual out-group members (Hewstone, 2003; Turner, Hewstone, & Voci, 2007; Voci & Hewstone, 2”
Intergroup threat and outgroup attitudes: a meta-analytic review. (2006, background): “Intergroup anxiety has been demonstrated to be a predictor of outgroup attitudes and bias (Ho & Jackson, 2001; Islam & Hewstone, 1993; Voci & Hewstone, 2003) and furthermore, people who tend to be generally high in anxiety often exhibit higher levels of prejudice (Hassan, 1978).”
Breaking Barriers, Crossing Borders, Building Bridges: Communication Processes in Intergroup Dialogues (2006, background): “, experiencing decreases in intergroup anxiety) (see Dovidio et al., 2004; Hewstone, 2003).”