More than 60 years ago, Gordon W. Allport published his renowned book “The Nature of Prejudice“ (1954) in which he discussed why individuals hold negative opinions about, for instance, African Americans or Catholics and how contact between social groups (i.e., intergroup contact) may reduce such prejudices. The latter proposition—also known as the contact hypothesis—inspired an ever-growing literature on intergroup relations.
Source: http://psychologie.fernuni-hagen.de/Lernportal/Lernumgebung/Html/GruppeInter.html
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