Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (9)

Perspective-taking mediates the imagined contact effect. (2014)
Journal Article
Husnu, S., & Crisp, R. J. (2015). Perspective-taking mediates the imagined contact effect. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 44, 29-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2014.11.005

We investigated the potential for mental imagery to reduce intergroup bias in Cyprus, an island that has suffered from interethnic tension for over 40 years. Seventy-three Turkish Cypriots were asked to imagine a scenario in which they interacted wit... Read More about Perspective-taking mediates the imagined contact effect..

Evidence That a Brief Meditation Exercise Can Reduce Prejudice Toward Homeless People. (2014)
Journal Article
Parks, S., Birtel, M. D., & Crisp, R. J. (2014). Evidence That a Brief Meditation Exercise Can Reduce Prejudice Toward Homeless People. Social Psychology, 45(6), 458-465. https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000212

Recent research has shown that integrating social and clinical psychological perspectives can be effective when designing prejudice-interventions, with psychotherapeutic techniques successful at tackling anxiety in intergroup contexts. This research... Read More about Evidence That a Brief Meditation Exercise Can Reduce Prejudice Toward Homeless People..

Systematic revisions to inherent notions may shape improvements in cognitive infrastructure (2014)
Journal Article
Meleady, R., & Crisp, R. J. (2014). Systematic revisions to inherent notions may shape improvements in cognitive infrastructure. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37(5), 495-496. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x13003804

The proposed inherence heuristic centers on perceivers' failure to systematically consider external, historical factors when explaining observed patterns. We stress that this does not preclude the potential of subsequently encountered information to... Read More about Systematic revisions to inherent notions may shape improvements in cognitive infrastructure.

How Dual-Identity Processes Foster Creativity (2014)
Journal Article
Goclowska, M. A., & Crisp, R. J. (2014). How Dual-Identity Processes Foster Creativity. Review of General Psychology, 18(3), 216-236. https://doi.org/10.1037/gpr0000008

We propose a theoretical model explaining when and why possessing 2 inconsistent social identities can foster superior creativity. The framework describes how during cultural adaptation individuals (a) alternate their identities across contexts, (b)... Read More about How Dual-Identity Processes Foster Creativity.

Contesting gender stereotypes stimulates generalized fairness in the selection of leaders. (2014)
Journal Article
Leicht, C., de Moura, G. R., & Crisp, R. J. (2014). Contesting gender stereotypes stimulates generalized fairness in the selection of leaders. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(5), 1025-1039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2014.05.001

Exposure to counter-stereotypic gender role models (e.g., a woman engineer) has been shown to successfully reduce the application of biased gender stereotypes. We tested the hypothesis that such efforts may more generally lessen the application of st... Read More about Contesting gender stereotypes stimulates generalized fairness in the selection of leaders..

Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure. (2014)
Journal Article
Goclowska, M. A., Baas, M., Crisp, R. J., & De Dreu, C. K. (2014). Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 40(8), 959-971. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167214533132

Although people and events that disconfirm observers’ expectancies can increase their creativity, sometimes such social schema violations increase observers’ rigidity of thought and undermine creative cognition. Here we examined whether individual di... Read More about Whether Social Schema Violations Help or Hurt Creativity Depends on Need for Structure..

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..