🚨New Publication🚨 Intergroup contact does more than reduce prejudice. Positive outgroup experiences relate to positive pro-mixing attitudes, via increased levels of outgroup respect and outgroup understanding. We looked at inter/ethnoreligious contexts. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to mixing: Testing novel emotional mediators of intergroup contact effects

Although numerous studies have documented the robust effect of positive intergroup contact experiences in reducing prejudice and improving positive at…

In this paper, led by Berfin Acar, we expand the work on intergroup contact. First, we examined whether contact experiences also related to social change indicators beyond prejudice, namely, attitudes towards personal and general mixing.