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Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications (2024)
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Paolini, S., Turner, R. N., Vasiljevic, M., & Crisp, R. J. (Eds.). (2024). Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications. SAGE Publications

Aiming to empower you throughout your undergraduate journey, this textbook covers the entire social psychology curriculum. More importantly, it offers inspiration to help you become an adept social psychologist, ready to unravel the intricacies of hu... Read More about Social Psychology: Foundations, Advances and Applications.

Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals (2024)
Journal Article
Shulman, D., Meleady, R., Hodson, G., & Crisp, R. J. (online). 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

Intergroup contact is regarded as one of the most effective ways to reduce prejudice. However, recent longitudinal studies using contemporary statistical techniques (e.g., random intercept cross-lagged panel models [RI-CLPMs]) have failed to find evi... Read More about Fluctuations in Prejudice Do Not Track Fluctuations in Ordinary Contact in Three 5-Wave “Shortitudinal” Studies Examining Daily, Weekly, or Monthly Intervals.

Dispositional empathy and personality as predictors of contact quality: The mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact (2024)
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Birtel, M. D., Di Bernardo, G. A., Vezzali, L., Turner, R. N., Crisp, R. J., & Martin, R. (2024). Dispositional empathy and personality as predictors of contact quality: The mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 102, Article 101986. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101986

While the prejudice-reduction effect of intergroup contact has been extensively demonstrated, research identifying antecedents of positive contact and underlying mechanisms is limited. Two studies, in Italy (N = 239 Italian adolescents) and the UK (N... Read More about Dispositional empathy and personality as predictors of contact quality: The mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact.

Let's stay close: An examination of the effects of imagined contact on behavior toward children with disability (2022)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.