I Think You like Me More Now: Contact with Outgroup Members in an Academic Setting Promotes Positive Meta-Perceptions over Time

Academic settings are promising contexts for intergroup contact that may reduce outgroup bias. However, worries about how others perceive oneself (meta-perceptions) may be a barrier to change. Across a semester of intergroup contact in a service-learning course, students reported more positive perceptions and meta-perceptions of racial and socioeconomic outgroup members.