Negative intergroup contact involves encounters experienced through hostility, humiliation, or threat across a group boundary. It can strengthen avoidance and prejudice. More contact is therefore not automatically better: the quality of repeated encounters matters to what participants learn to expect next.
- Entry typeKey concept
- CategoryTheories & Explanatory Models
- DomainGroups & Decisions
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Editorial orientation · Entry type
Key concept
Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.
Editorial orientation · Category
Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.