The COVID-19 pandemic has been instrumental in creating a dramatic shift from people's
need to live in mutual association toward a desire to stigmatize distinctive others. Pandemic …

Seventy years of research on intergroup contact, or face-to-face interactions between
members of opposing social groups, demonstrates that positive contact typically reduces …

Objective Public stigma and discrimination have pernicious effects on the lives of people
with serious mental illnesses. Given a plethora of research on changing the stigma of mental …

Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and
most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it …

This work identifies how cross-group friendships are conceptualized and measured in
intergroup research, investigates which operationalizations yield the strongest effects on …

The present article presents a meta-analytic test of intergroup contact theory. With 713
independent samples from 515 studies, the meta-analysis finds that intergroup contact …

▪ Abstract Allport specified four conditions for optimal intergroup contact: equal group status
within the situation, common goals, intergroup cooperation and authority support. Varied …

This article uses a multilevel approach to review the literature on interventions with promise
to reduce social stigma and its consequences for population health. Three levels of an …

Building sustainable diversity in higher education isn't just the right thing to do—it is an
imperative for institutional excellence and for a pluralistic society that works. In Diversity's …

The extended contact hypothesis proposes that knowledge that an in-group member has a
close relationship with an out-group member can lead to more positive intergroup attitudes …