GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
COGNITION AND EMOTIONS
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Question
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researchers are unsure why it works
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contact promotes the ideal that groups are all alike
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contact may increase the perception of similarity of members belonging to different groups
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mere-exposure effects lead to liking others
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Detailed explanation-1: -Contact may also reduce prejudice because it increases empathy and helps people to see things from the other group’s perspective. According to psychologist Thomas Pettigrew and his colleagues, contact with another group allows people “to sense how outgroup members feel and view the world.”
Detailed explanation-2: -Thus, positive contact reduces prejudice on a macrolevel, whereby people are influenced by the behavior of others in their social context, not merely on a microscale, via individuals’ direct experience of positive contact with outgroup members.
Detailed explanation-3: -After 10–20 exposures the change in liking slows (Zajonc, Shaver, Tavris, & Van Kreveld, 1972). Some researchers have then observed a decrease in liking as exposure increases beyond some boredom threshold, resulting in an inverted U-shaped curve (Kail & Freeman, 1973).