Today, physical and psychological barriers can reduce opportunities for the type of direct
face‐to‐face intergroup contact first identified by Gordon Allport. Consequently, social …

Highlights•Indirect forms of intergroup contact are generally less potent than direct
forms.•Indirect contact is most effective when direct contact is not possible, such as in hostile …

Although intergroup contact reduces prejudice generally, there are growing calls to examine
contextual factors in conjunction with contact. Such an approach benefits from more …

Even in relatively tolerant countries, antigay bias remains socially divisive, despite being
widely viewed as violating social norms of tolerance. From a Justification-Suppression …

Despite studies examining political ideology, group dehumanization, and intergroup contact
as predictors of intergroup support and affect, research on their interplay in shaping such …

Intergroup contact—(positive) interactions with people from different social groups—is a
widely researched and strongly supported prejudice-reducing mechanism shown to reduce …

Imagined contact is a widely-used methodology for decreasing prejudice. Recently,
however, the effectiveness and replicability of imagined contact have been debated. To the …

Imagined contact is an intervention that combines the prejudice‐reduction of intergroup
contact with the easy, low‐risk application of imagery‐based techniques. Accordingly, it can …

Rationale Sexual minorities' mental health disparities are produced in larger contexts of
sexual stigma. There is limited understanding of pathways between sexual stigma …

Human Library (HL) is a nonprofit community event aimed at increasing awareness and
reduction of prejudice toward stigmatized groups in the society. HL implements an unusual …