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Criminalization at the Margins: Downblousing, Creepshots and Image-Based Sexual Abuse (2023)
Book Chapter
McGlynn, C. (2023). Criminalization at the Margins: Downblousing, Creepshots and Image-Based Sexual Abuse. In The Criminalization of Violence Against Women Comparative Perspectives. Oxford University Press

In recent years, governments across the world have introduced new criminal laws to tackle online abuse, particularly criminalising the non-consensual taking and/or sharing of nude or sexual images, often referred to as image-based sexual abuse. Such... Read More about Criminalization at the Margins: Downblousing, Creepshots and Image-Based Sexual Abuse.

Let's stay close: An examination of the effects of imagined contact on behavior toward children with disability (2022)
Journal Article
Cocco, V. M., Bisagno, E., Di Bernardo, G. A., Bicocchi, N., Calderara, S., Palazzi, A., Cucchiara, R., Zambonelli, F., Cadamuro, A., Stathi, S., Crisp, R., & Vezzali, L. (2023). Let's stay close: An examination of the effects of imagined contact on behavior toward children with disability. Social Development, 32(3), 1042-1059. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12662

In line with current developments in indirect intergroup contact literature, we conducted a field study using the imagined contact paradigm among high-status (Italian children) and low-status (children with foreign origins) group members (N = 122; 53... Read More about Let's stay close: An examination of the effects of imagined contact on behavior toward children with disability.

Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes (2022)
Journal Article
Weick, M., Couturier, L.-C., Vasiljevic, M., Ross, P., Cory, C., Crisp, R., Leite, A., Marcinko, A., Nguyen, T., & Van de Vyver, J. (2022). Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 102, Article 104353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2022.104353

A large body of research points to differences in the communal orientation of people from a lower and higher socio-economic status (SES) background. However, direct evidence for differences in communal attitudes remains scant. In this pre-registered... Read More about Building bonds: A pre-registered secondary data analysis examining linear and curvilinear relations between socio-economic status and communal attitudes.

Remembrance of Contact Past: When Intergroup Contact Metacognitions Decrease Outgroup Tolerance (2022)
Journal Article
Drury, L., Birtel, M. D., Randsley de Moura, G., & Crisp, R. J. (2022). Remembrance of Contact Past: When Intergroup Contact Metacognitions Decrease Outgroup Tolerance. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 26(3), 652-668. https://doi.org/10.1177/13684302221079220

Positive intergroup contact reliably reduces prejudice, yet little is known about the meta-cognitive processes involved in recalling prior contact experiences and their impact on outgroup tolerance. The present research examined whether contact inter... Read More about Remembrance of Contact Past: When Intergroup Contact Metacognitions Decrease Outgroup Tolerance.

Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures (2022)
Journal Article
Maitner, A., DeCoster, J., Andersson, P., Eriksson, K., Sherbaji, S., Giner-Sorolla, R., Mackie, D., Aveyard, M., Claypool, H., Crisp, R., Gritskov, V., Habjan, K., Hartanto, A., Kiyonari, T., Kuzminska, A., Manesi, A., Molho, C., Munasinghe, A., Peperkoorn, L., Shiramizu, V., …Wu, J. (2022). Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(3-4), 263-288. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221211065108

Emotions are linked to wide sets of action tendencies, and it can be difficult to predict which specific action tendency will be motivated or indulged in response to individual experiences of emotion. Building on a functional perspective of emotion,... Read More about Perceptions of Emotional Functionality: Similarities and Differences Among Dignity, Face, and Honor Cultures.

40 Years of Multiple Social Categorization: A Tool for Social Inclusivity (2020)
Journal Article
Prati, F., Crisp, R. J., & Rubini, M. (2021). 40 Years of Multiple Social Categorization: A Tool for Social Inclusivity. European Review of Social Psychology, 32(1), 47-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2020.1830612

We review a 40-year corpus of research that we collectively name “Multiple Categorisation Theory” (MCT). From early illustrations using the minimal group paradigm, through a focus on how people cognitively represent social diversity, to recent models... Read More about 40 Years of Multiple Social Categorization: A Tool for Social Inclusivity.

Diversity May Help the Uninterested: Evidence that Exposure to Counter-stereotypes Promotes Cognitive Reflection for People Low (But not High) in Need for Cognition (2019)
Journal Article
Damer, E., Webb, T. L., & Crisp, R. J. (2019). Diversity May Help the Uninterested: Evidence that Exposure to Counter-stereotypes Promotes Cognitive Reflection for People Low (But not High) in Need for Cognition. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 22(8), 1079-1093. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430218811250

Previous theorizing and research has linked exposure to counter-stereotypical diversity (e.g., an Oxford-educated bricklayer) to enhanced cognitive performance and creativity. However, it is unclear whether people’s motivation to cognitively engage w... Read More about Diversity May Help the Uninterested: Evidence that Exposure to Counter-stereotypes Promotes Cognitive Reflection for People Low (But not High) in Need for Cognition.

Don’t Hurt my Outgroup Friend: Imagined Contact Promotes Intentions to Counteract Bullying (2019)
Journal Article
Vezzali, L., Birtel, M., Di Bernardoa, G., Stathi, S., Crisp, R., Cadamuroa, A., & Visintin, E. (2020). Don’t Hurt my Outgroup Friend: Imagined Contact Promotes Intentions to Counteract Bullying. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 23(5), 643-663. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430219852404

A growing body of research has shown that imagined intergroup contact can improve outgroup attitudes. The aim of the present study was to examine the effectiveness of a multifaceted form of imagined contact in counteracting bullying in school childre... Read More about Don’t Hurt my Outgroup Friend: Imagined Contact Promotes Intentions to Counteract Bullying.

On the Generalization of Intergroup Contact: A Taxonomy of Transfer Effects (2019)
Journal Article
Meleady, R., Crisp, R., Hodson, G., & Earle, M. (2019). On the Generalization of Intergroup Contact: A Taxonomy of Transfer Effects. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(5), 430-435. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419848682

The contact hypothesis proposes that bringing groups together under favorable conditions can improve intergroup relations. It is now well established that intergroup contact can improve attitudes not only toward the out-group as a whole but also towa... Read More about On the Generalization of Intergroup Contact: A Taxonomy of Transfer Effects.