sentences:  In that context, absent the specific conditions of Allport, contact comes to produce more negative effects, namely increasing prejudice.Some social psychologists have converged with political scientists on this position.Stefania Paolini, Jake Harwood, and Mark Rubin (2010) proposed that intergroup contact may have more negative than positive effects on prejudice, because it makes outgroup members' social group more salient during encounters, the negative contact hypothesis.