Practice question · Multiple choice
Simply putting hostile groups in contact often fails, and sometimes makes prejudice worse. Allport's contact hypothesis specifies conditions. Which set actually matters?
Hints
- Robbers Cave put the groups in contact at meals. What was missing?
- Ask what an unequal-status contact situation teaches each side.
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B. Equal status, shared goals, cooperation and authority support
Why
Contact is a venue, not an intervention, unequal-status contact can confirm a stereotype rather than dissolve it. The conditions are what make the encounter informative, which is why desegregation succeeds or fails depending on details of how it is arranged rather than on whether it happened.
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