Professor Stefania Paolini
| Research Interests | Discrimination, diversity initiatives and interventions Intergroup contact seeking and avoidance Intergroup emotions, stress and anxiety Intergroup friendships and intimacy Intergroup interactions and contact Meta-cognitions and judgment formation Motivated contact, self-expansion and other motivations for intergroup contact Negative intergroup contact Prejudice and prejudice-reduction interventions, including racism, sexism, homophobia, ageism etc. Social induction, deduction and generalization processes Stereotyping, stereotype formation and change Valence asymmetries and negativity bias in contact effects Voluntary and involuntary contact |
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