Contact and Groups

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.

跨群体接触与降低偏见有着稳健的关联。然而，迄今为止，几乎所有关于接触的研究都考察了狭窄范围内的群体，这引发了其效应可能仅限于某些类型群体的可能性。在两项研究（总样本量 N = 2163）中，我们测试了跨群体接触与偏见之间的关系是否对广泛的群体样本（k = 80）一致，群体属性是否调节了这种关系，以及这种关系是否取决于跨群体接触的类型。结果表明，接触与所有群体、群体属性和接触措施中的较低偏见保持一致关联。总体而言，我们的结果广泛支持跨群体接触理论：接触与具有广泛多样群体属性的群体中的偏见呈负相关。