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

The present article presents a meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. With 713
independent samples from 515 studies, the meta-analysis finds that intergroup contact …

We send money to help famine victims halfway around the world. We campaign to save
whales and oceans. We stay up all night to comfort a friend with a broken relationship …

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 …

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 …

This work identifies how cross-group friendships are conceptualized and measured in
intergroup research, investigates which operationalizations yield the strongest effects on …

Like all perception, social perception reflects evolutionary pressures. In encounters with
conspecifics, social animals must determine, immediately, whether the 'other'is friend or foe …

In this article, we review empirical research investigating the efficacy of perspective‐taking–
the active consideration of others' mental states and subjective experiences–as a strategy …

Recent years have witnessed a renewal of interest in intergroup contact theory. A meta‐
analysis of more than 500 studies established the theory's basic contention that intergroup …

Since the publication of our first text on social cognition, a lot has changed for us personally
(children come and gone, grandchildren have arrived, new jobs, new houses) and …