Schools are an important context of intergroup contact between culturally diverse teachers
and students, where intergroup anxiety may occur. Using survey data from school teachers …

In this groundbreaking volume, Vezzali and Stathi present their research program within the
larger contact literature, examining classic theories and current empirical findings, to show …

Attrition of doctors from healthcare systems has reached crises levels in the US, UK, and
throughout the European Union. The situation is expected to worsen—causing more harm to …

We conducted an experimental intervention to test the effectiveness of vicarious contact in
the relationship between Turkish and Syrian elementary school children; the participants …

Literature on intergroup contact shows that in the absence of the required structural
conditions, contact is not necessarily always a positive experience and that when it is …

Despite burgeoning evidence for the effectiveness of intergroup contact on prejudice
reduction, relatively less is known about how much individuals' internal control and active …

This article uses the case of Riace, a small multiethnic community in Southern Italy, as a lens
to evaluate key theoretical and methodological aspects of the influential Intergroup Contact …

Intergroup Contact Theory (Allport, 1954; Pettigrew, 1998) has been known to function as a
critical prejudice-reduction tool in most intractable conflicts for years. Later research has …

Research has proposed different models of how contact situations should be structured to
maximize contact effects, focusing in particular on the role of categorization during contact …

Intergroup contact theory provides a useful framework for effective interventions to improve
intergroup relationship; however, disharmony between various social groups perseveres …