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Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs. (2014)
Journal Article
Vezzali, L., Crisp, R. J., Stathi, S., & Giovannini, D. (2015). Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 18(1), 66-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430214527853

Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new cognitive intervention designed to improve intergroup relations. In two studies, we examined whether it could also facilitate intercultural communication among international students and hos... Read More about Imagined intergroup contact facilitates intercultural communication for college students on academic exchange programs..

Reducing Prejudice Through Mental Imagery: Notes on Replication, Interpretation, and Generalization. (2014)
Journal Article
Crisp, R. J., & Birtel, M. D. (2014). Reducing Prejudice Through Mental Imagery: Notes on Replication, Interpretation, and Generalization. Psychological Science, 25(3), 840-841. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797613520169

Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new indirect contact strategy for promoting tolerance and more positive intergroup relations. McDonald, Donnellan, Lang, and Nikolajuk (2014) were unable to replicate the findings we obtained us... Read More about Reducing Prejudice Through Mental Imagery: Notes on Replication, Interpretation, and Generalization..

A meta-analytic test of the imagined contact hypothesis. (2013)
Journal Article
Miles, E., & Crisp, R. J. (2014). A meta-analytic test of the imagined contact hypothesis. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 17(1), 3-26. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430213510573

Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new indirect contact strategy for promoting tolerance and more positive intergroup relations. Despite its relatively recent inception, there have now been over 70 studies showing that imagining... Read More about A meta-analytic test of the imagined contact hypothesis..

Diversity Policy, Social Dominance, and Intergroup Relations: Predicting Prejudice in Changing Social and Political Contexts (2013)
Journal Article
Guimond, S., Crisp, R. J., De Oliveira, P., Kamiejski, R., Kteily, N., Kuepper, B., …Zick, A. (2013). Diversity Policy, Social Dominance, and Intergroup Relations: Predicting Prejudice in Changing Social and Political Contexts. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(6), 941-958. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0032069

In contrast to authors of previous single-nation studies, we propose that supporting multiculturalism (MC) or assimilation (AS) is likely to have different effects in different countries, depending on the diversity policy in place in a particular cou... Read More about Diversity Policy, Social Dominance, and Intergroup Relations: Predicting Prejudice in Changing Social and Political Contexts.

Simulating Social Dilemmas: Promoting Cooperative Behavior Through Imagined Group Discussion (2013)
Journal Article
Meleady, R., Hopthrow, T., & Crisp, R. J. (2013). Simulating Social Dilemmas: Promoting Cooperative Behavior Through Imagined Group Discussion. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 104(5), 839-853. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031233

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 104(5) of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2013-13780-004). In the article there was an error in Table 6. The standard deviations listed under the Cooperative... Read More about Simulating Social Dilemmas: Promoting Cooperative Behavior Through Imagined Group Discussion.

Hope in the Middle East: Malleability Beliefs, Hope, and the Willingness to Compromise for Peace. (2013)
Journal Article
Cohen-Chen, S., Halperin, E., Crisp, R. J., & Gross, J. J. (2014). Hope in the Middle East: Malleability Beliefs, Hope, and the Willingness to Compromise for Peace. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 5(1), 67-75. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550613484499

The importance of hope has long been asserted in the field of conflict resolution. However, little is actually known about either how to induce hope or what effects hope has on conciliatory attitudes. In the current research, we tested whether (1) ho... Read More about Hope in the Middle East: Malleability Beliefs, Hope, and the Willingness to Compromise for Peace..

Need for Structure Predicts Leadership Preference. (2013)
Journal Article
Leicht, C., Crisp, R. J., & de Moura, G. R. (2013). Need for Structure Predicts Leadership Preference. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 17(1), 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031476

Prototypicality is an important factor for judgments and evaluations of group members and leadership selection. We tested whether these prototypicality perceptions vary as a function of individual differences in cognitive processing preferences. Part... Read More about Need for Structure Predicts Leadership Preference..

Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination (2013)
Journal Article
Vasiljevic, M., & Crisp, R. (2013). Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination. PLoS ONE, 8(3), Article e57106. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0057106

Prejudices towards different groups are interrelated, but research has yet to find a way to promote tolerance towards multiple outgroups. We devise, develop and implement a new cognitive intervention for achieving generalized tolerance based on scien... Read More about Tolerance by Surprise: Evidence for a Generalized Reduction in Prejudice and Increased Egalitarianism through Novel Category Combination.

Linguistic Description Moderates the Evaluations of Counterstereotypical People (2013)
Journal Article
Rubin, M., Paolini, S., & Crisp, R. J. (2013). Linguistic Description Moderates the Evaluations of Counterstereotypical People. Social Psychology, 44(4), 289-298. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000114

The present research investigated linguistic description as a moderator of biased evaluations of counterstereotypical individuals. Members of an online participant pool (N = 237) indicated their liking for stereotypical and counterstereotypical indiv... Read More about Linguistic Description Moderates the Evaluations of Counterstereotypical People.