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Contact with out-group friends as a predictor of meta-attitudinal strength and accessibility of attitudes toward gay menChristiana Vonofakou
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:804-20. 2007..The authors emphasize the importance of considering the nature of out-group attitudes more completely when evaluating the effectiveness of intergroup contact in reducing prejudice...- Reducing explicit and implicit outgroup prejudice via direct and extended contact: The mediating role of self-disclosure and intergroup anxietyRhiannon N Turner
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK
J Pers Soc Psychol 93:369-88. 2007..The authors discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings, which argue for the inclusion of self-disclosure as a key component of social interventions to reduce prejudice... 
Of babies and bathwater, and rabbits and rabbit holes: a plea for conflict prevention, not conflict promotionMiles Hewstone
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
Behav Brain Sci 35:436-7. 2012..The goal to "ignite struggles" in pursuit of social equality, we argue, incautiously risks hurling us down the proverbial rabbit hole...- Fifty-odd years of inter-group contact: from hypothesis to integrated theoryMiles Hewstone
University of Oxford, UK Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Br J Soc Psychol 50:374-86. 2011..We conclude that this body of work no longer merits the modest title of 'hypothesis', but fully deserves acknowledgement as an integrated and influential theory... - Intergroup biasMiles Hewstone
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
Annu Rev Psychol 53:575-604. 2002..intergroup approaches, especially models of social categorization); and (e) the link between intergroup bias and more corrosive forms of social hostility... - Antecedents and consequences of social identity complexity: intergroup contact, distinctiveness threat, and outgroup attitudesKatharina Schmid
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 35:1085-98. 2009..This research highlights that the extent to which individuals perceive their multiple ingroups in more or less complex and differentiated ways is of central importance to understanding intergroup phenomena... - Individual-level and group-level mediators of contact effects in Northern Ireland: the moderating role of social identificationNicole Tausch
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
Br J Soc Psychol 46:541-56. 2007..We discuss these results against the background of current intergroup relations in Northern Ireland... - The confirmability and disconfirmability of trait concepts revisited: does content matter?Nicole Tausch
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, England
J Pers Soc Psychol 92:542-56. 2007..The theoretical and practical implications of the authors' findings are discussed, and avenues for future research are suggested... 
Propranolol reduces implicit negative racial biasSylvia Terbeck
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
Psychopharmacology (Berl) 222:419-24. 2012..The aim of the present study was to examine the role of noradrenergic mechanisms in the generation of implicit racial attitudes...- An investigation of the social identity model of collective action and the 'sedative' effect of intergroup contact among Black and White students in South AfricaHuseyin Cakal
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
Br J Soc Psychol 50:606-27. 2011..Overall findings support an integration of SIMCA and intergroup contact theory, and provide a fuller understanding of the social psychological processes leading to collective action... - Social contact and other-race face processing in the human brainPamela M Walker
Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3UD UK
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci 3:16-25. 2008..The results showed that race-of-face has significant effects upon face processing, starting from early perceptual stages of structural encoding, and that social factors may play an important role in mediating these effects... - A test of the extended intergroup contact hypothesis: the mediating role of intergroup anxiety, perceived ingroup and outgroup norms, and inclusion of the outgroup in the selfRhiannon N Turner
Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom
J Pers Soc Psychol 95:843-60. 2008..A number of alternative models were ruled out, indicating that the four mediators operate concurrently rather than predicting one another... - Direct and indirect intergroup friendship effects: testing the moderating role of the affective-cognitive bases of prejudiceStefania Paolini
School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Australia, Stefania Paolini Newcastle edu au
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:1406-20. 2007..Study 3 replicated Study 2's indirect friendship-cognitive basis moderation in a context of historically polarized intergroup relations and on two new outcome variables, intergroup trust and negative action tendencies... - Inclusiveness and crossed categorization: effects on co-joined category evaluations of in-group and out-group primesRichard J Crisp
Schol of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK
Br J Soc Psychol 42:25-38. 2003..In addition, measures of perceived inclusiveness and importance suggested that such structural aspects of social categories are an important consideration for future multiple categorization work... - Systematic and heuristic processing of majority and minority-endorsed messages: the effects of varying outcome relevance and levels of orientation on attitude and message processingRobin Martin
Aston University
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 33:43-56. 2007.... - Crossed categorization in common ingroup contextsRichard J Crisp
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 32:1204-18. 2006..These findings are discussed in the context of integrating crossed categorization and common ingroup identity models of multiple categorization... - Cognitive processes in stereotype formation: the role of correct contingency learning for biased group judgmentsThorsten Meiser
Department of Psychology, University of Jena, Jena, Germany
J Pers Soc Psychol 87:599-614. 2004..The results support an explanation of biased group judgments by pseudocontingencies; that is, unwarranted inferences from accurately perceived bivariate correlations in complex environments... - Effects of direct and indirect cross-group friendships on judgments of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: the mediating role of an anxiety-reduction mechanismStefania Paolini
School of Behavioural Sciences, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 30:770-86. 2004..It is argued that emerging generalization hypotheses help to integrate both cognition and affect and interpersonal and intergroup approaches to contact... - Homesickness among students in two cultures: antecedents and consequencesMargaret Stroebe
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Br J Psychol 93:147-68. 2002..The results supported the conceptualization of homesickness as a 'mini-grief', to be viewed from theoretical perspectives in the field of loss and bereavement... - Intergroup attitudes and attitudes towards devolution: field and laboratory experimentsGregory R Maio
Cardiff University, UK
Br J Soc Psychol 42:477-93. 2003..minority status and of intergroup attitudes towards potentially devolving groups in psychology. These findings demonstrate that intergroup attitudes are highly relevant to understanding attitudes regarding devolution... - Group consensus in social influence: type of consensus information as a moderator of majority and minority influenceAntonis Gardikiotis
University of Macedonia, Department of Educational and Social Policy, Thessaloniki, Greece
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:1163-74. 2005.... - Grandparent-grandchild contact and attitudes toward older adults: moderator and mediator effectsJake Harwood
Department of Communication, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Pers Soc Psychol Bull 31:393-406. 2005..Moderated mediational analysis indicated that the moderating effect of group salience occurs between quality of contact and the mediator, not between the mediator and attitudes... - The role of in-group identification, religious group membership and intergroup conflict in moderating in-group and out-group affectEd Cairns
University of Ulster, UK
Br J Soc Psychol 45:701-16. 2006..In both years, high identifiers and Protestants exhibited more in-group bias than low identifiers and Catholics, respectively...