The greatest magic of H arry P otter: Reducing prejudice

L Vezzali, S Stathi, D Giovannini… - Journal of applied …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Implicit racism, colour blindness, and narrow definitions of discrimination: Why some White people prefer 'All Lives Matter'to 'Black Lives Matter'

K West, K Greenland, C van Laar - British Journal of Social …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has been called the 'civil rights issue of our
time'(Holt & Sweitzer, 2020, Self and Identity, 19 (, p. 16) but the All Lives Matter (ALM) …

Social identity threat across group status: Links to psychological well-being and intergroup bias through collective narcissism and ingroup satisfaction.

SC Bagci, S Stathi… - Cultural Diversity and …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Through two correlational studies (Study 1: Turkish majority, Kurdish minority;
Study 2: White British majority; Black minority), we examined the implications of social …

Time period, generational, and age differences in tolerance for controversial beliefs and lifestyles in the United States, 1972–2012

JM Twenge, NT Carter, WK Campbell - Social Forces, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Americans have become increasingly tolerant of controversial outgroups in results from the
nationally representative General Social Survey (1972–2012, N= 35,048). Specifically …

Testing hypersensitive responses: Ethnic minorities are not more sensitive to microaggressions, they just experience them more frequently

K West - Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Racial microaggressions have attracted significant empirical attention and have been
associated with profound negative effects. However, some argue against the importance of …

Understanding and reducing sexual prejudice in Jamaica: Theoretical and practical insights from a severely anti-gay society

K West - The Journal of Sex Research, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Jamaica has earned an international reputation for severe sexual prejudice—perhaps
disproportionately so compared to other severely anti-LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and …

Prejudiced and unaware of it: Evidence for the Dunning-Kruger model in the domains of racism and sexism

K West, AA Eaton - Personality and Individual Differences, 2019 - Elsevier
Prior research, and high-prolife contemporary examples, show that individuals tend to
underestimate their own levels of bias. This underestimation is partially explained by …

Approval of coercion in psychiatry in public perception and the role of stigmatization

S Steiger, J Moeller, JF Sowislo, R Lieb… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Coercion is routinely used in psychiatry. Its benefits and drawbacks are
controversially debated. In addition, the majority of persons with mental health problems are …

Intergroup contact and prejudice against people with schizophrenia

K West, M Hewstone, S Lolliot - The Journal of social psychology, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Using extended contact to improve physiological responses and behavior toward people with schizophrenia

K West, R Turner - Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2014 - Elsevier
Extended contact has been shown to improve explicit and implicit attitudes toward a number
of outgroups, but not yet toward people with mental health conditions. Using people with …