Abstract: Many studies have shown that imagining intergroup contact can improve attitudes toward a social groups.Imagined intergroup contact includes mentally stimulating a social interaction between an ingroup member and an outgroup member.The basic idea of imagined intergroup contact is that mentally simulating a positive contact experience will create a mental contact ‘script’, alongside more positive feelings about outgroups, that will result in more favorable outgroup perceptions and enhanced intentions to engage in future contact. The basic imagined contact experimental instruction is very simple, Participants in imagined contact condition received the instructions, are given exactly a few minutes to imagine the scene. The effectiveness of imagined contact is moderated by certain conditions，such as group status and the level of identification with one’s ingroup . The limitations of the existing study and prospect,The first, the real life intergroup contact is carried out in a more complicated social background, the psychological reaction to outgroup member not only includes the positive and positive things, and at the same time, includes more negative things, so the similarity between the simulation psychological environment of imagine contact and the actual intergroup contact is extremely low.The second,on the one hand, the same mental simulation scenarios for different social group results in different consequences, The effectiveness of imagined contact is moderated by group difference variable. So, before imagined contact, must consider benefit relationship between the groups, such as the officials and people conflict, resentment of the rich, still need to consider People's subjective attitude towards life, and the specific intergroup contact experience ,the original knowledge system, and even the personality difference, etc. On the other hand, The effectiveness of imagined contact is moderated by the difficulty of the task, vividness, concreteness, etc.The third,an important question is that the effectiveness of imagined contact can last for a long time, in the present, in terms of most imagined contact study, the measurement of the dependent variable in imagination contact situation immediately be implemented after the task, However, if the effectiveness of imagined contact has a powerful influence, so its effectiveness should be lasting. in a few days and a few weeks later, the effectiveness of imagined contact can still exist? It should pay more attention to improve the ecological validity, strengthen mechanism and direct behavior effect of Imagined intergroup contact.imagined intergroup contact theory provides an innovative framework for attempts to reduce prejudice and improve intergroup relations. In a word, The verification of the imagined intergroup contact theory to the practical application, not only need to improve the level of the research, there are a lot of specific operational problems to be solved. In the future, we should pay attention to the imagination intergroup contact theory and other disciplines, judge the value the theory in broader academic field of vision. At present, our country is positive for the construction of socialist harmonious society, but in China's social background, the development of imagining intergroup contact and the specific experimental research of imagining intergroup contact is very scarce, it will provide a broad space for imagined intergroup contact theory research.

Key words: intergroup relationship, intergroup contact, imagine intergroup contact , prejudice

摘要： 想象群际接触的基本思想指，在心理上想象一个积极的群际接触会创设一个心理接触的脚本，激发与外群体成员成功互动的观念，积极互动观念也就伴随产生对外群体的积极情感，导致对外群体的积极感知，增强和外群体进一步接触的意愿。想象群际接触的实验操纵比较简单，设置实验组和控制组，采用指导语的方式，但是想象群际接触的效应受群体地位、内群体认同状况等变量的调节。在未来的研究中, 需要注意提高研究的效度，加强机制、直接行为效应的研究，想象群际接触理论为改善群际关系提供了一个崭新的框架。

关键词: 群际关系, 群际接触, 想象群际接触, 偏见