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 …

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 …

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

Recent advances in intergroup contact theory and research are reviewed. A meta-analysis
with 515 studies and more than 250,000 subjects demonstrates that intergroup contact …

This paper investigates the association of diversity practices with an important aspect of
workplace well‐being, engagement. It was hypothesized that this association would be …

Recent research shows that extended contact via story reading is a powerful strategy to
improve out‐group attitudes. We conducted three studies to test whether extended contact …

Decety and JT Cacioppo (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of social neuroscience, pp. 551–64.
New York: Oxford University Press. The literature on the neuroscience of empathy, while …

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 …

The new edition of the classic text on group dynamics theory and research—extensively
revised, expanded, and updated Offering a critical appraisal of theory and research on …