Reducing prejudice via indirect intergroup contact

Lead Research Organisation: University of Leeds
Department Name: Institute of Psychological Sciences

Abstract

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Description Education in divided societies: Developing and researching shared education in the Republic of Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Croatia.
Amount £149,000 (GBP)
Funding ID ES/P006655/1 
Organisation Economic and Social Research Council 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2017 
End 06/2018
 
Description The continuum of contact: discovering the optimum strategy for prejudice reduction in Australia and Northern Ireland 
Organisation University of Sydney
Country Australia 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution University of Sydney Bridging Grant for top-ranked 10% of unsuccessful 2012 Australian Research Council Grant applicants.
Start Year 2010
 
Description Does using contact in an 'indirect' way help to prepare people for intergroup encounters? 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited talk at the School of Psychology, University of Southampton. May 9
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Imagination and Observation: Changing behaviour in a diverse society 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact In my inaugural professorial lecture at Queen's University Belfast, I outlined to a diverse audience of academics and policy makers how the findings from my ESRC grant can help us to understand how by observing, or imagining, a positive intergroup encounter, our behaviour towards members of those groups can be made more positive, relaxed, and comfortable. These behavioural changes in turn have knock-on effects for the success of intergroup relations.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Just imagine: Changing physiological responses and real world behaviour toward people with schizophrenia. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact A discussion of the effect of imagined and extended contact on physiological responses when anticipating actual intergroup contact.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description The benefits of indirect intergroup contact. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Other audiences
Results and Impact Summary of the findings from the grant, as part of a symposium on research related to the ESRC grant at the BPS Psychology Conference in Exeter.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2014
 
Description Using contact in an 'indirect' way to help to prepare people for intergroup encounters 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Turner, R. N. (2013). Invited talk at the School of Psychology, University of Kent. May 7
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013
 
Description Using imagined and extended contact to help to prepare people for intergroup encounters 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Primary Audience
Results and Impact Invited talk at the OUPS Annual Conference: Psychology of Conflict. University of Warwick, July 5-7, 2013
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2013