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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

On the evolutionary origins of revenge and forgiveness: A converging systems hypothesis (2012)
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Crisp, R. J., & Meleady, R. (2013). On the evolutionary origins of revenge and forgiveness: A converging systems hypothesis. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36(1), 19-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x12000362

McCullough et al. argue that humans possess evolved computational systems for implementing retaliatory behavior that both deters aggression and promotes subsequent reconciliation. However, they do not apply this analysis to the sphere of intergroup r... Read More about On the evolutionary origins of revenge and forgiveness: A converging systems hypothesis.

“Treating” Prejudice: An Exposure-Therapy Approach to Reducing Negative Reactions Toward Stigmatized Groups. (2012)
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Birtel, M. D., & Crisp, R. J. (2012). “Treating” Prejudice: An Exposure-Therapy Approach to Reducing Negative Reactions Toward Stigmatized Groups. Psychological Science, 23(11), 1379-1386. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612443838

One of the ways in which therapists treat anxiety disorders is to expose patients to a fear-evoking stimulus within a safe environment before encouraging more positive stimulus-related thoughts. In the study reported here, we adapted these psychother... Read More about “Treating” Prejudice: An Exposure-Therapy Approach to Reducing Negative Reactions Toward Stigmatized Groups..

The Group Discussion Effect: Integrative Processes and Suggestions for Implementation (2012)
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Meleady, R., Hopthrow, T., & Crisp, R. J. (2013). The Group Discussion Effect: Integrative Processes and Suggestions for Implementation. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17(1), 56-71. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868312456744

One of the most consistent findings in experimental social dilemmas research is the positive effect group discussion has on cooperative behavior. At a time when cooperation and consensus is critical to tackle global problems, ranging from debt to def... Read More about The Group Discussion Effect: Integrative Processes and Suggestions for Implementation.

On counter-stereotypes and creative cognition: When interventions for reducing prejudice can boost divergent thinking. (2012)
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Goclowska, M. A., & Crisp, R. J. (2013). On counter-stereotypes and creative cognition: When interventions for reducing prejudice can boost divergent thinking. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 8, 72-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2012.07.001

School-based psychological interventions which require students and pupils to think of counter-stereotypic individuals (e.g., a female mechanic, a Black President) have been shown to reduce stereotyping and prejudice. But while these interventions ar... Read More about On counter-stereotypes and creative cognition: When interventions for reducing prejudice can boost divergent thinking..

Imagining Intergroup Contact Can Combat Mental Health Stigma by Reducing Anxiety, Avoidance and Negative Stereotyping (2012)
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Stathi, S., Tsantila, K., & Crisp, R. J. (2012). Imagining Intergroup Contact Can Combat Mental Health Stigma by Reducing Anxiety, Avoidance and Negative Stereotyping. The Journal of Social Psychology, 152(6), 746-757. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2012.697080

Research has demonstrated widespread negative attitudes held toward people with mental health problems. Our study investigated whether a new prejudice reduction technique, imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009 Crisp, R. J. and Turner, R.... Read More about Imagining Intergroup Contact Can Combat Mental Health Stigma by Reducing Anxiety, Avoidance and Negative Stereotyping.

Adapting to a Multicultural Future (2012)
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Crisp, R. J., & Meleady, R. (2012). Adapting to a Multicultural Future. Science, 336(6083), 853-855. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1219009

Humans have an evolved propensity to think categorically about social groups. This propensity is manifest in cognitive processes that have broad implications for public and political endorsement of multicultural policy. Drawing on these principles, w... Read More about Adapting to a Multicultural Future.

Attachment anxiety and friendship group identification under attachment threat: the moderating role of priming support network expectations (2012)
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Rosenthal, H., Walsh, J., Crisp, R., Farrow, C., Waugh, M., Blissett, J., & Millings, A. (2012). Attachment anxiety and friendship group identification under attachment threat: the moderating role of priming support network expectations. Personality and Individual Differences, 53(5), 562-567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2012.04.035

We examined the role of priming participants’ own network expectations on their subsequent identification with their friendship group. We examined this prime alongside attachment anxiety and attachment threat, as predictors of friendship group identi... Read More about Attachment anxiety and friendship group identification under attachment threat: the moderating role of priming support network expectations.

Can counter-stereotypes boost flexible thinking? (2012)
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Goclowska, M. A., Crisp, R. J., & Labuschagne, K. (2013). Can counter-stereotypes boost flexible thinking?. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 16(2), 217-231. https://doi.org/10.1177/1368430212445076

To reduce prejudice psychologists design interventions requiring people to think of counter-stereotypes (i.e., people who defy stereotypic expectations—a strong woman, a Black President). Grounded in the idea that stereotypes constrain the ability to... Read More about Can counter-stereotypes boost flexible thinking?.