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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
“The more we get together, the happier we’ll be.”
Children’s song by Jim Rule“Good luck will rub off when I shakes [sic] hands with you.”
The chimney sweep in Mary Poppins“To know, know, know him is to love, love, love him.”
Phil Spector“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
Alternatively ascribed to Aesop, The Fox and the Lion, to Mark Twain, and to a Nigerian proverb.Contact is both the great hope and the great fear of liberals who work to make people more accepting of those from different backgrounds. Contact theory, which Pettigrew and Tropp (2006, 751–2) trace back to the 1940s, especially to the summary by Williams (1947), is the claim that exposure to people of different backgrounds leads to less prejudice. The greater your opportunity for interacting with people different from yourself, the more likely you are to hold positive attitudes toward them.
Conflict theory, the argument that interactions among people of different backgrounds is likely to lead to more hostility, dates back even further (Baker, 1934). Key argued that Southern whites in the United States were most likely to support racist candidates for office in areas with large populations of African-Americans (1949, 666).
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