Theories of risk aversion, epistemic defense, and ingroup enhancement converge in
predicting greater impact of negative (vs. positive) experiences with outgroup members on …

Highlights•Indirect forms of intergroup contact are generally less potent than direct
forms.•Indirect contact is most effective when direct contact is not possible, such as in hostile …

In the past years the Netherlands have witnessed turbulent debates on immigration and
integration, characterized by high levels of negativity and containing a variety of different …

In response to the COVID‐19 pandemic, societies face the formidable challenge of
developing sustainable forms of sociability‐cumsocial‐distancing–enduring social life while …

Then we were faced with the invidious task of selecting a set of authors to invite. In any
project like this, there are too few slots for far too many scholars who have contributed …

Through individual-to-group generalisation, information about individual members of
stigmatised social groups changes the outgroup judgment. This article reports meta-analytic …

The current research examines television news as a contextual determinant of intergroup
threat from North African immigrants in Flanders (ie the northern part of Belgium). We …

To maintain a positive overall view of their group, people judge likeable ingroup members
more favourably and deviant ingroup members more harshly than comparable outgroup …

This study examines the impact of economic and safety threat perceptions on anti-immigrant
sentiments. We investigate the extent to which public support for individual immigrants is …

The stereotype content model (SCM) describes that groups of people are mainly appraised
according to two dimensions: warmth and competence. The present study's aim was to …