You need cognitive capacity to correct for stereotypes that you may have. According to Devine, unfortunately we are typically lacking cognitive resources. Maybe we can eliminate stereotypes and prejudice by getting people together and letting them interact. Cook s Contact Hypothesis Bad contact created prejudice. The right kind of contact can reduce prejudice.
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Just focusing on cognitions. Cook conducted a study Took 46 of the most prejudiced people he could find. 23 of them went about business as ordinary. 23 went through an elaborate 8 week study that fulfilled all the conditions of the contact hypothesis.