A teacher assigns children of different racial groups to work together on a world history project. The Italian child, the Bulgarian child, the Chinese child, and the Mexican child are each responsible for teaching the others about the country where their
parents were born. The teacher is trying to reduce prejudice through her familiarity with research on
A) the minimal intergroup paradigm.
B) ingroup differentiation.
C) the contact hypothesis.
D) the illusory correlation.
Answer: C
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