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

Recent evidence suggests that both direct and indirect friendship with outgroup members
(knowledge of ingroup members' friendship with outgroup members) can reduce prejudice …

Major biases and stereotypes in group judgments are reviewed and modeled from a
recurrent connectionist perspective. These biases are in the areas of group impression …

One of the leading theories advocated for reducing intergroup conflict is the contact
hypothesis. According to this theory, contact under certain conditions, such as equal status …

Addressing core questions about prejudice and stereotyping--their causes, consequences,
and how to reduce them--this noted text is now in a thoroughly revised third edition with 50 …

This groundbreaking work by leading social psychologists, who have all contributed in
important ways to the psychology of group perception, focuses in particular on three …

In two experiments, we investigated the impact of the presentation of a deviant ingroup
member on the perception of the ingroup among participants who differed in their degree of …

In 2004, we (Smith & Semin, 2004) described a conceptual framework of “socially situated
cognition,” encompassing four major themes. Cognition is for adaptive action, involves the …

A phenomenon where male celebrities endorse traditionally or stereotypically feminine-
oriented products and vice versa has emerged in advertising (Kim 2009; Son 2013) …

The generalization of attitudes toward individual outgroup members into attitudes toward the
outgroup as a whole can affect intergroup relations. However, little is known about the …