Discussant Reynolds, K. (Australian National University) Reynolds will provide a critical appraisal of the papers in the symposium as well as their view regarding the broader state of the contact literature. The double symposium will culminate with a commentary on the versatility of intergroup contact as a mechanism for social change in light of the […]

The Interplay Between Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact on Collective Action of Migrant People Prati, F. (Oxford University, United Kingdom), Hewstone, M. (Oxford University, UK; University of Newcastle, Australia), Rubini, M. (Bologna University, Italy) Social integration is one of the current major challenges in increasingly multi-cultural societies. Many European countries are currently facing a flow […]

Increasing Positivity Matters. Differential Effects of the Intensity of Positively and Negatively Valenced Intergroup Contact: Evidence from Survey and Experimental Research Schäfer, S. (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany), Fell, B. (Oxford University, UK), Hewstone, M. (Oxford University, UK), Christ, O. (FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany) Research on intergroup contact has only recently begun to consider the effects […]

Associative Learning Processes in the Formation of Intergroup Anxiety and Avoidance in Society O’Donnell, A. (Griffith University), Neumann, D. (Griffith University), Duffy, A. (Griffith University) Laboratory-based aversive conditioning studies have shown that pairing an outgroup member with a fear-inducing, aversive stimulus results in fear toward images of that outgroup member. However, laboratory research designs have […]