Concerns about intergroup contact have a long and somewhat tortuous history. Shaped largely by Social Darwinism dogma, early theorizing anticipated negative effects. Following World War II, however, a more optimistic view took hold, and social psychological research began to study the phenomenon. Allport's (1954) influential book, the Nature of Prejudice, focused social psychological attention on intergroup contact and shaped research on it for the rest of the 20th century. Now the domain has developed into a complex and intricate theory, complete with multiple forms of contact and numerous moderating and mediating variables—as demonstrated in the articles throughout this JSI issue. Within this historical context of the theory's development, this article then comments on each of the previous articles and their further advances to the theory.

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推进群体间接触理论：对该问题文章的评论

关于团体间接触的担忧源远流长。很大程度上是由社会达尔文主义教条所塑造，早期进行了理论上的预期负面影响。但是，在第二次世界大战之后，人们有了更为乐观的看法，社会心理学研究开始研究这种现象。Allport（1954）有影响力的书，《偏见的本质》，将社会心理注意力集中在群体间的接触上，并在20世纪余下的时间里进行了相关的研究。现在，该领域已发展成为一个复杂而复杂的理论，包括多种形式的联系以及众多调节和中介变量，正如本期JSI问题中的文章所证明的那样。在此理论发展的历史背景下，本文将对之前的每篇文章及其对理论的进一步发展进行评论。