Classic research on the contact hypothesis focused on the direct relationship between the
antecedents (conditions under which contact occurs) and the outcomes (primarily, the …

According to the extended contact hypothesis, knowing that in-group members have cross-
group friends improves attitudes toward this out-group. This meta-analysis covers the 20 …

One pervasive educational issue is the national underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic
students in gifted education. Virtually every school district is grappling with having too few …

In a large-scale, preregistered experiment on informal political communication, we
algorithmically matched participants, varying two dimensions: 1) the degree of incidental …

Americans today are affectively polarized: they dislike and distrust those from the opposing
political party more than they did in the past, with damaging consequences for their …

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 …

We advance interparty contact as a remedy to affective polarization and examine the
processes through which interparty contact attenuates the hostility between Democrats and …

Many methods for reducing implicit prejudice have been identified, but little is known about
their relative effectiveness. We held a research contest to experimentally compare …

We propose that intergroup contact provides an effective means by which to reduce, resolve,
and prevent conflict of all kinds, including violent conflict. We review the vast literature on the …

This new edition of Prejudice provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject, introducing
the major theoretical ideas as well as providing a critical analysis of recent developments …