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A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory
Pettigrew, Thomas F., and Linda R. Tropp. "A Meta-Analytic Test of Intergroup Contact Theory." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 90, no. 5 (2006): 751-83.
Why this matters here
Pettigrew and Tropp's 2006 meta-analysis finds that intergroup contact generally reduces prejudice across many studies, while also noting conditions and status asymmetries that shape effects for majority- and minority-status groups. The World We Make Together refuses contact-as-solvent: people can meet and still remain separated by rank, fear, or unequal threat that equal-trust rhetoric conceals.
