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Number 2/2006
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When does contact reduce prejudice? Social and temporal categorizations
as conditions of effective intergroup contact
Michał Bilewicz
Faculty of Psychology
Warsaw University
Abstract |
Theory and research are presented relating the impact of social and temporal
categorizations on the effectiveness of intergroup contact. The author reviews
and compares previous proposals and his own more recent hypotheses concerning
the role of intergroup perception in the processes of reducing prejudice and
improving intergroup relations after successful contact. Three major approaches
(personalized cognitions, salient categories, common ingroup identity) are
discussed in context of author's research on Polish-Jewish encounters. The new
conception basing on perspective-taking (namely: intergroup transgressions) is
proposed as a possible alternative to current approaches.
Key words: contact hypothesis, intergroup contact, categorization, prejudice
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