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“For White Americans, negative contact with Black Americans consistently predicted defending the police officer and downplaying the issue of racial injustice.” & “Experiences an individual has with outgroup members predicts how they feel towards the whole outgroup."

Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact Predict Black and White Americans' Judgments About Police Violence Against Black Americans Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact Predict Black and White Americans' Judgments About Police Violence Against Black Americans Figure from paper from model predicting negative attitutes towards Black people Figure from paper from model predicting negative attitutes towards Black people
Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact Predict Black and White Americans' Judgments About Police Violence Against Black Americans
Journal of Applied Social Psychology
Hayward, Lydia E. / Hornsey, Matthew J. / Tropp, Linda R. / Barlow, Fiona Kate
Vol. 47 Issue 11, pp. 605–615, 2017
10.1111/jasp.12463
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