Note that this list is automatically generated and may not be exhaustive (or entirely accurate). Authors in blue are members of the Contact Research Network.
Acar, B. & Van Assche, J. (2025). The more you want to fit in, the more similar you become: How others’ ideologies relate to our own intergroup attitudes. Political Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.70020
Friehs, M., Plaza, A., Schäfer, S. J., Gonzalez, R. & Christ, O. (2025). Does intergroup contact affect political attitudes and behaviours? - A longitudinal mediation analysis using the Chilean Longitudinal Social Survey (ELSOC). PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2mzdq_v2
McKeown, S., Vezzali, L. & Stathi, S. (2025). Understanding and harnessing intergroup contact in educational contexts. British Journal of Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12876
Degner, J., Flöther, J. & Essien, I. (2025). Pressured to be proud? Investigating the link between perceived norms and intergroup attitudes in members of disadvantaged minority groups. British Journal of Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12874
Mendoza-Franco, G., Jasinskaja-Lahti, I., Aulbach, M. B., Harjunen, V. J., Peltola, A., Ravaja, J. N., Tassinari, M., Vainio, S. & Jääskeläinen, I. P. (2025). Fingerprint patterns of human brain activity reveal a dynamic mix of emotional responses during virtual intergroup encounters. NeuroImage https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2025.121129
Guvensoy, I., Bagci, S. C., Turner, R. N. & Stathi, S. (2025). Do they dislike us as much as we think? Positive contact as a potential rectifier of meta-attitude inaccuracy in conflictual intergroup settings. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302251315063
Doyle, L., Tropp, L. R. & Easterbrook, M. J. (2025). Examining How White Teachers’ Interracial Contact Experiences Shape Their Self-Efficacy and School Choices. Educational Researcher https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189x251322791
Crone, C. L., Richardson, M. J. & Kallen, R. (2025). Can Virtual Reality Improve Cisgender-Transgender Relations? Embodied Interactions in Perspective Taking and Intergroup Contact. PsyArXiv https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ezrnw_v1
Schaefer, C. D., McKeown, S., Ali, S., Dupont, P., Manley, D., Rao, S. & Taylor, L. K. (2025). The Longitudinal Effects of Intergroup Contact on Youth Attitudes Towards Ethnic Minorities and Constructive Societal Engagement. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70026
Zingora, T. (2025). On the spurious effect of intergroup friendship on outgroup attitudes in schools: The role of social influence and the positive impact of exposure to outgroup peers. British Journal of Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12797
Schäfer, S. J., Kros, M., Hewstone, M., Schmid, K., Fell, B. F., Jaspers, E., Kauff, M., Lemmer, G. & Christ, O. (2025). Differential effects of positive versus negative contact: The importance of distinguishing valence from intensity. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241258070
Pollmanns, C. & Van Assche, J. (2025). The extended contact asymmetry: Authoritarians benefit more from positive but do not suffer more from negative extended intergroup contact. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241249051
Yetkili, O., Agdelen, N., Vural, S. & Kostyuk, E. (2025). The effects of identity (subordinate vs. superordinate) salience on intergroup attitudes, anxiety, and contact intentions in North Cyprus. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000747
Shulman, D., Meleady, R., Hodson, G. & Crisp, R. J. (2024). Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals. Social Psychological and Personality Science https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506241284079
Tausch, N., Birtel, M. D., Górska, P., Bode, S. & Rocha, C. (2024). A post-Brexit intergroup contact intervention reduces affective polarization between Leavers and Remainers short-term. Communications Psychology https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00146-w
Prati, F., Kana Kenfack, C. S., Hewstone, M. & Rubini, M. (2024). The association between mass media news about interethnic contact and relations between ethnic minorities and natives: The perspective of African immigrants in Italy. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000707
Acar, B., Van Assche, J., Ardaya Velarde, S., Gonzalez, R., Lay, S., Rao, S. & McKeown, S. (2024). R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to mixing: Testing novel emotional mediators of intergroup contact effects. International Journal of Intercultural Relations https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.102070
Cheso, D., Zagefka, H. & Bjornsdottir, R. T. (2024). Exploring the Relations Among Knowledge, Contact, and Transgender Prejudice. Sex Roles https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-024-01513-x
Drury, L. & Fasbender, U. (2024). Fostering intergenerational harmony: Can good quality contact between older and younger employees reduce workplace conflict? Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12539
Paolini, S., Gibbs, M., Sales, B., Anderson, D. & McIntyre, K. (2024). Negativity bias in intergroup contact: Meta-analytical evidence that bad is stronger than good, especially when people have the opportunity and motivation to opt out of contact. Psychological Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1037/bul0000439
Borinca, I., Van Assche, J. & Koc, Y. (2024). How meta-humanization leads to conciliatory attitudes but not intergroup negotiation: The mediating roles of attribution of secondary emotions and blatant dehumanization. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2024.100198
Tassinari, M., Aulbach, M. B., Harjunen, V. J., Cocco, V. M., Vezzali, L. & Jasinskaja-Lahti, I. (2024). The effects of positive and negative intergroup contact in virtual reality on outgroup attitudes: Testing the contact hypothesis and its mediators. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302241237747
Kenfack, C. S. K., Prati, F., Schaefer, S., Christ, O., Hewstone, M., Moscatelli, S. & Rubini, M. (2024). Positive and negative intergroup contact and newcomer immigrants’ psychological adjustment. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000634
Weber, M., Stroebele, L., Song, S. J., Offner, L., Huang, A. X. & Degner, J. (2024). The relation between contact experiences and dual identity among German residents with a Turkish or Kurdish identity. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.2795
Asimovic, N., Ditlmann, R. K. & Samii, C. (2024). Estimating the effect of intergroup contact over years: evidence from a youth program in Israel. Political Science Research and Methods https://doi.org/10.1017/psrm.2024.8
McKeown, S., Di Bernardo, G. A., Charlesford, J., Vezzali, L. & Sagherian‐Dickey, T. (2024). Peer inclusion and school equality norm associations with intergroup contact, and academic self‐efficacy amongst ethnic majority and ethnic minority youth. Journal of Applied Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13027
Prati, F., Policardo, G. R., Hewstone, M. & Rubini, M. (2024). How Positive and Negative Intergroup Contact May Shape the Communication of Discrimination Toward Migrants. Journal of Language and Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927x241237260
Dupont, P., Ali, S., Manley, D., Schaefer, C. D., Taylor, L. K. & McKeown, S. (2024). Understanding the spatial dimension of youth intergroup contact in a postaccord society. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000719
Schreiber, J. A., Tropp, L. R. & Uluğ, Ö. M. (2024). Comparing the roles of positive and supportive intergroup contact on social cohesion and social change: Theoretical extensions and practical implications. Translational Issues in Psychological Science https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000388
Visintin, E. P., Rullo, M. & Lo Destro, C. (2024). Imagine Being Humble: Integrating Imagined Intergroup Contact and Cultural Humility to Foster Inclusive Intergroup Relations. Behavioral Sciences https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14010051
McKeown, S., Ali, S., Manley, D. & Taylor, L. K. (2024). Promoting youth intergroup contact in a postaccord society: The role of supportive interaction norms and self-expansion. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000692
Hodson, G. & Meleady, R. (2024). Replicating and extending Sengupta et al. (2023): Contact predicts no within-person longitudinal outgroup-bias change. American Psychologist https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001210
Köbrich, J., Martinović, B. & Stark, T. H. (2024). Interreligious contact and attitudes in Togo and Sierra Leone: The role of ingroup norms and individual preferences. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000702
Birtel, M. D., Di Bernardo, G. A., Hobson, H., Collins‐Quirk, A. & Vezzali, L. (2024). Avoiding affect in intergroup relations: The roles of dispositional and intergroup empathy in the relationship between alexithymia and prejudice. Journal of Applied Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13015
Paterson, J. L., Hodson, G. & Turner, R. N. (2024). When Harry met Meghan (got married, had a baby, and “Megxited”): Intergroup anxiety, ingroup norms, and racialized categorization as predictors of receptivity to interracial romances. Journal of Applied Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.13016
van Lent, T., Verwijmeren, T. & Bijlstra, G. (2024). Dishonest collaboration in an intergroup context. British Journal of Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12675
Valsecchi, G., Berent, J., Borinca, I., Green, E. G. T. & Falomir-Pichastor, J. M. (2024). Inclusive social norms and nationals’ positive intergroup orientations toward refugees: The moderating role of initial prejudice and intergroup contact. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302231156399
Friehs, M., Bracegirdle, C., Reimer, N. K., Wölfer, R., Schmidt, P., Wagner, U. & Hewstone, M. (2024). The Between-Person and Within-Person Effects of Intergroup Contact on Outgroup Attitudes: A Multi-Context Examination. Social Psychological and Personality Science https://doi.org/10.1177/19485506231153017
Husnu, S., Paolini, S. & Berrigan, A. (2024). Freely-chosen positive intergroup imagery causes improved outgroup emotions and encourages increased contact seeking immediately and at follow-up. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221147000
Grigoryev, D. S. & Komyaginskaya, E. S. (2023). Intergroup Contact and Personal and Cultural Stereotypes in Intercultural Relations: A Case of the Stereotype Content in Moscow for Belarusians, Chinese, Uzbeks, and Chechens. RUDN Journal of Psychology and Pedagogics https://doi.org/10.22363/2313-1683-2023-20-1-41-66
Van Assche, J., Swart, H., Schmid, K., Dhont, K., Al Ramiah, A., Christ, O., Kauff, M., Rothmann, S., Savelkoul, M., Tausch, N., Wölfer, R., Zahreddine, S., Saleem, M. & Hewstone, M. (2023). Intergroup contact is reliably associated with reduced prejudice, even in the face of group threat and discrimination. American Psychologist https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001144
Sengupta, N. K., Reimer, N. K., Sibley, C. G. & Barlow, F. K. (2023). Does intergroup contact foster solidarity with the disadvantaged? A longitudinal analysis across 7 years. American Psychologist https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001079
Bagci, S., Turnuklu, A., Tercan, M., Cameron, L. & Turner, R. (2023). Have some confidence in contact: Self‐efficacy beliefs among children moderate the associations between cross‐group friendships and outgroup attitudes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12929
Vázquez, A., Sayans-Jiménez, P., López-Rodríguez, L., Lois, D. & Zagefka, H. (2023). Positive contact with working-class people reduces personal contribution to inequality. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221108936
Vezzali, L., Trifiletti, E., Wölfer, R., Di Bernardo, G. A., Stathi, S., Cocco, V. M., Cadamuro, A., Shamloo, S. E. & Hewstone, M. (2023). Sequential models of intergroup contact and social categorization: An experimental field test of integrated models. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221104921
Lefringhausen, K., Marshall, T. C., Ferenczi, N., Zagefka, H. & Kunst, J. R. (2023). Majority members’ acculturation: How proximal-acculturation relates to expectations of immigrants and intergroup ideologies over time. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221096324
Voca, S., Graf, S. & Rupar, M. (2023). Victimhood beliefs are linked to willingness to engage in intergroup contact with the former adversary through empathy and trust. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221084859
Drury, L., Birtel, M. D., Randsley de Moura, G. & Crisp, R. J. (2023). Remembrance of contact past: When intergroup contact metacognitions decrease outgroup tolerance. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221079220
Bagci, S. C., Stathi, S. & Golec de Zavala, A. (2023). Social identity threat across group status: Links to psychological well-being and intergroup bias through collective narcissism and ingroup satisfaction. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000509
Burrows, B., Tropp, L. R., Dehrone, T. A. & Čehajić-Clancy, S. (2022). How intergroup contact shapes intergroup attitudes and construals of relations between ethnic groups: Evidence from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000629
Drury, L., Abrams, D. & Swift, H. J. (2022). Intergenerational contact during and beyond COVID‐19. Journal of Social Issues https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12551
Visintin, E. P. & Tasso, A. (2022). Are You Willing to Protect the Health of Older People? Intergenerational Contact and Ageism as Predictors of Attitudes toward the COVID-19 Vaccination Passport. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191711061
McKeown, S., Sagherian-Dickey, T., Kwong, J. & Charlesford, J. J. (2022). Putting theory into peaceful practice: Insights and reflections on the process of coproducing a school-based intergroup relations intervention with teachers. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000598
Jones, A., Turner, R. N. & Latu, I. M. (2022). Resistance towards increasing gender diversity in masculine domains: The role of intergroup threat. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211042424
Tropp, L. R., White, F., Rucinski, C. L. & Tredoux, C. (2022). Intergroup Contact and Prejudice Reduction: Prospects and Challenges in Changing Youth Attitudes. Review of General Psychology https://doi.org/10.1177/10892680211046517
Reimer, N. K., Hughes, J., Blaylock, D., Donnelly, C., Wölfer, R. & Hewstone, M. (2022). Shared education as a contact-based intervention to improve intergroup relations among adolescents in postconflict Northern Ireland. Developmental Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001274
Fasbender, U. & Drury, L. (2022). One plus one equals one: age-diverse friendship and its complex relation to employees’ job satisfaction and turnover intentions. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432x.2021.2006637
Schäfer, S. J., Simsek, M., Jaspers, E., Kros, M., Hewstone, M., Schmid, K., Fell, B. F., Dorrough, A. R., Glöckner, A. & Christ, O. (2022). Dynamic contact effects: Individuals’ positive and negative contact history influences intergroup contact effects in a behavioral game. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000374
Bracegirdle, C., Reimer, N. K., van Zalk, M., Hewstone, M. & Wölfer, R. (2022). Disentangling contact and socialization effects on outgroup attitudes in diverse friendship networks. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pspa0000240
Hotchin, V. & West, K. (2022). Open to Contact? Increased State Openness Can Lead to Greater Interest in Contact With Diverse Groups. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672211030125
Di Bernardo, G. A., Vezzali, L., Birtel, M. D., Stathi, S., Ferrari, B., Giovannini, D. & Pettigrew, T. F. (2022). The role of optimal conditions and intergroup contact in promoting positive intergroup relations in and out of the workplace: A study with ethnic majority and minority workers. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302211010929
Hässler, T., Ullrich, J., Sebben, S., Shnabel, N., Bernardino, M., Valdenegro, D., Van Laar, C., González, R., Visintin, E. P., Tropp, L. R., Ditlmann, R. K., Abrams, D., Aydin, A. L., Pereira, A., Selvanathan, H. P., von Zimmermann, J., Lantos, N. A., Sainz, M., Glenz, A., Kende, A., Oberpfalzerová, H., Bilewicz, M., Branković, M., Noor, M., Pasek, M. H., Wright, S. C., Žeželj, I., Kuzawinska, O., Maloku, E., Otten, S., Gul, P., Bareket, O., Corkalo Biruski, D., Mugnol-Ugarte, L., Osin, E., Baiocco, R., Cook, J. E., Dawood, M., Droogendyk, L., Loyo, A. H., Jelić, M., Kelmendi, K. & Pistella, J. (2022). Need satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multinational study of pathways toward social change. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000365