Seventy years of research on intergroup contact, or face-to-face interactions between
members of opposing social groups, demonstrates that positive contact typically reduces …

Intergroup contact is one of the most promising and effective strategies for reducing
prejudice. Importantly, intergroup contact not only improves attitudes towards an …

Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and
most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it …

Welcome to the third edition of The Psychology of Attitudes & Attitude Change. As you would
expect, this edition contains many new developments. As a starting point, Bas Verplanken …

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 …

Research in social psychology has provided impressive evidence that intergroup contact
reduces prejudice. However, to the extent that strategies based on direct contact are …

A widely researched panacea for reducing intergroup prejudice is the contact hypothesis.
However, few longitudinal studies can shed light on the direction of causal processes: from …

In this chapter, bias is defined broadly as an unfair evaluative, emotional, cognitive, or
behavioral response toward another group in ways that devalue or disadvantage the other …

In 16 independent samples from five countries involving~ 7,700 participants, we employ a
mixture of cross-sectional, longitudinal, and quasi-experimental methods to examine the …

Although many theoretical approaches have emerged to explain prejudices expressed by
children, none incorporate outgroup dehumanization, a key predictor of prejudice among …