Interventions to reduce stigma towards people with severe mental illness: Systematic review and meta-analysis

AJ Morgan, NJ Reavley, A Ross, L San Too… - Journal of psychiatric …, 2018 - Elsevier
This review evaluates the evidence on what interventions are effective in reducing public
stigma towards people with severe mental illness, defined as schizophrenia, psychosis or …

Interventions to reduce discrimination and stigma: the state of the art

PC Gronholm, C Henderson, T Deb… - Social psychiatry and …, 2017 - Springer
Background There is a rich literature on the nature of mental health-related stigma and the
processes by which it severely affects the life chances of people with mental health …

A meta-analytic test of the imagined contact hypothesis

E Miles, RJ Crisp - Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new indirect contact strategy for
promoting tolerance and more positive intergroup relations. Despite its relatively recent …

Fifty‐odd years of inter‐group contact: From hypothesis to integrated theory

M Hewstone, H Swart - British Journal of Social Psychology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We review 50‐odd years of research on Allport's (1954)'contact hypothesis', to assess
progress, problems, and prospects. We chart the progress that has been made in …

Confidence in contact: A new perspective on promoting cross‐group friendship among children and adolescents

RN Turner, L Cameron - Social issues and policy review, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Intergroup contact theory proposes that positive interactions between members of different
social groups can improve intergroup relations. Contact should be especially effective in …

Out‐group trust, intergroup anxiety, and out‐group attitude as mediators of the effect of imagined intergroup contact on intergroup behavioral tendencies

RN Turner, K West, Z Christie - Journal of Applied Social …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated whether imagining contact with an out‐group member would change
behavioral tendencies toward the out‐group. In Experiment 1, B ritish high school students …

Increasing outgroup trust, reducing infrahumanization, and enhancing future contact intentions via imagined intergroup contact

L Vezzali, D Capozza, S Stathi, D Giovannini - Journal of Experimental …, 2012 - Elsevier
The present study was designed to test whether imagined intergroup contact (Crisp &
Turner, 2009) affects attributions of human emotions to outgroup members and positive …

The imagined contact hypothesis

RJ Crisp, RN Turner - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2012 - Elsevier
Abstract Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new indirect contact
strategy for promoting tolerance and more positive intergroup relations. Research has …

Intergroup contact as an agent of cognitive liberalization

G Hodson, RJ Crisp, R Meleady… - Perspectives on …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Intergroup contact is widely recognized as one of the most validated methods of improving
attitudes toward out-groups. Yet what is intergroup contact “good for” beyond this function …

Improving implicit and explicit intergroup attitudes using imagined contact: An experimental intervention with elementary school children

L Vezzali, D Capozza, D Giovannini… - Group Processes & …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this study was to test the effectiveness of imagined intergroup contact on
elementary school children's explicit and implicit intergroup attitudes. Italian 5th-graders …