The past decade has seen rapid growth in research that evaluates methods for reducing
prejudice. This essay reviews 418 experiments reported in 309 manuscripts from 2007 to …

Intergroup contact theory has been one of the most influential theories in social psychology
since it was first formulated by Gordon Allport in 1954. This volume highlights, via a critical …

Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new indirect contact strategy for
promoting tolerance and more positive intergroup relations. Despite its relatively recent …

Intergroup threat harms attitudes toward the outgroup, leading to greater levels of prejudice
and outgroup derogation (Rothgerber, 1997). Two experiments were conducted to examine …

This research explored how a virtual reality (VR) public service announcement (PSA) in a
first-person perspective (vs non-VR PSA scripts: first-person perspective-taking, non …

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

According to a dual process model perspective, intergroup contact should be particularly
effective for people high in right‐wing authoritarianism (RWA), but not for those high in social …

Imagined contact is a relatively new technique designed to focus the accumulated
knowledge of over 500 studies of intergroup contact into a simple and versatile prejudice …

There is a growing awareness that responses to mental health disorders differ according to
the label. Still, research on contact and prejudice against people with mental health …

We investigated the potential for mental imagery to reduce intergroup bias in Cyprus, an
island that has suffered from interethnic tension for over 40 years. Seventy-three Turkish …