Neighbors and Visitors: Impact of Diversity on Attitudes Toward Migrants

Authors: Olena Dominika Holubowska, Daria Dementeva, Ate Poorthuis

KU Leuven

Coming soon!

#HumanMobility #SegregationInActivitySpaces #IntergroupContact #Migration #UrbanSegregation #BigData

Reducing prejudice with counter‐stereotypical AI Based on a review of relevant literature, we propose that the proliferation of AI with human-like and social features presents an unprecedented opportunity to address the underlying cognitive and aff...

“Counter-stereotypical AI should not go so far as to suppress dissenting or traditional opinions or coerce uniformity of thought.” (Hermann, 2025)

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#Psychology #SocialPsychology #PsychSciSky #EduSky
#StereotypeReduction #IntergroupContact #EdTech

AI offers promising potential. Its strengths—repeated, direct, unavoidable (embedded in daily life), private, non-judgmental, collaborative, need-satisfying (designed to support)—could foster more inclusive, sustained, and constructive intergroup dialogue (Hermann, 2025).
#IntergroupContact

Led by the brilliant @shelleymckeown.bsky.social we present a Perspectives article on why and how #IntergroupContact can be a valuable tool in educational settings. We hope this can facilitate a fruitful dialogue between researchers and teachers bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

#postdoc #psychology #migration #intergroupcontact #socialperception #socialpsychology #academia

Happy to share this new piece on bridging differences in the US, just published in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social and inspired by the report on #socialconnection recently released by @moreincommonus.bsky.social
#bridging #intergroupcontact

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Is there a link between positive intergroup contact and meta-attitude accuracy? Yes - for both majority and minority groups! Have a look at our new paper led by the brilliant Ipek Guvensoy 🙂 doi.org/10.1177/1368... #PrejudiceResearch #IntergroupContact

Figure 2. Interaction effects of host-language proficiency and cultural novelty on socializing with domestic students. Note: Part A depicts conditional main effects of host-language proficiency at +1SD, mean, and −1SD of cultural novelty. Part B depicts Johnson-Neyman regions of interaction statistical significance.

Effects of cultural novelty on the interplay between language & cultural adjustment in international students

Wilczewski et al

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#InternationalStudents #LanguageProficiency #CulturalNovelty #CulturalAdjustment #IntergroupContact #StudentAdjustment #CulturalDifferences 🇩🇰🇮🇹🇩🇪🇵🇱🇺🇸

They're not the only group to show this.

But the message seems to be slow to get out there.

People, laypeople & researchers alike, often want simple answers to questions like: does #intergroupcontact "work"?

Well, it does. But like most of psychology, it's more nuanced than a yes/no answer.

I love how papers like this--by taking a multi-level approach, can help us to understand how immigrant influx at one level (national) boosts prejudice, but at another (local) does the opposite. (PS go #intergroupcontact!)

Worth getting your head around this. These scholars are really onto something

Linda Tropp on Reducing Threat and Bridging Groups through Contact The Answer is Community gets our questions answered by a *real* social psychologist!

sharing a recent interview about #bridgingdifferences, and many of the social, psychological, and emotional processes involved when people from different groups come together for #intergroupcontact 🙏

theansweriscommunity.substack.com/p/linda-trop...

@lindatropp.bsky.social

Linda Tropp, one of the world's leading contact & prejudice researchers, now on Bluesky!

Give her a follow!

(she's also a great person, with lots of deep insights & inspiration.... surely your feed needs some positivity??)

#PrejudiceResearch #IntergroupContact

One of social psychology’s great lessons is that prejudice decreases with friendly social contact between people of equal status, while minimal contact sustains prejudice. In today’s world, anti-immigrant sentiment in both Germany and the U.S. runs strongest in states with the fewest immigrants. West Virginians, whose state has the lowest proportion of undocumented immigrants, have been most likely to disagree that “the growing number of newcomers from other countries strengthens American society.”

I also like his phrasing here, re "great lesson" we've learned from #IntergroupContact

Cool study #PrejudiceResearch

Drafted into Vietnam service? White men expressed less anti-Black racism.

Authors attribute to #IntergroupContact

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(PDF) The Longitudinal Relationship Between Youth Intergroup Contact and Social Cohesion Outcomes in Two Divided Societies PDF | Intergroup contact has long been established as a prejudice‐reduction tool in divided societies, with contact being particularly effective during... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

"The Longitudinal Relationship Between Youth Intergroup Contact and Social Cohesion Outcomes in Two Divided Societies" by McKeown et al. is a really good article.

#socialcohesion #conflictresolution #reconsilitation #intergroupcontact #prejudice #youth

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Please welcome @robender.bsky.social from @zkfs.bsky.social and follow her to learn more about her work on #youthdelinquency #hatecrime and #intergroupcontact

Why diverse friendships are good for kids Contact ready children have the confidence, skills, beliefs and experiences that encourage them to engage positively with diverse cross-group peers.

A7: I hope that #ReadYourWorld books will teach children to make more diverse friends:#ReadYourWorld #friendsmaketheworldgoround #intergroupcontact

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The Bridging Differences Playbook by @GreaterGoodSC explains perfectly what One Globe Kids is all about, our program, and our research.
#buildingbridges #startyoung #maketheforeignfeelfamiliar #friendsmaketheworldgoround #intergroupcontact

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Getting kids to connect across racial — and geographic — lines | CNN Much of the talk about structural racism has begun to focus on how implicit bias impacts kids. Parents have to start early if they’re to cultivate a generation rooted in empathy and fairness. These nonprofits are working to “connect children across lines of difference.”

Great article @cnn, great organizations with missions like ours: raising children who are confident in contact with diverse others.
@RaceEmbrace @EmpaticoOrg @GirlsWithImpact #StartYoung #intergroupcontact #friendsmaketheworldgoround

cnn.com/2020/07/15/hea…

One Globe Kids - make friends around the world One Globe Kids is an award-winning library of stories from children around the world, friendship activities and education resources. Let's explore the world together!

Thank you all, @HomaTav, @AsiaSocietyEDU, @hsingmaster for this great #Globaledchat! Find our Global Friendship stories and activities onMeet Valdo in Haiti & Larasati in Indonesia for #FREE) Follow us for more on #intergroupcontact #globaled

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One Globe Kids - make friends around the world One Globe Kids is an award-winning library of stories from children around the world, friendship activities and education resources. Let's explore the world together!

To #ReadYourWorld - Thank you for the great #MCBD2020 party! Find our Global Friendship Stories onRead about Valdo in Haiti & Larasati in Indonesia for #FREE) Follow @OneGlobeKids for more on #intergroupcontact #diversefriendship #inclusion #globaled

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Your 5 Year-Old is Already Racially Biased. Here's what you can do it about it.

Your 5 Year-Old is Already Racially Biased -via @raceembrace #intergroupcontact #startyoung #maketheforeignfeelfamiliar

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Global Education Through Friendship - Check out One Globe Kids in the latest Childhood Education Innovations magazine by @ChildhoodEdIntl -#globaled #socialinnovations #earlychildhood #friendsmaketheworldgoround #confidenceincontact #intergroupcontact

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How Do Children Acquire Prejudices? Most parents in the U.S. hope that if they do not point out race to their children, they won't notice it. The problem is, this doesn’t really seem to work.

How Do Children Acquire Prejudices? | Psychology Today#bias #intergroupcontact #startyoung #globaled

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Come work with us! #PhD opportunity: intergroup contact + kids + global competence, in the UK:… - Deadline for completed applications is 5pm (UK time) on 21st July 2019. #globaled #intergroupcontact #PhD

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Come work with us! PhD opportunity: intergroup contact + kids + global friendship, in the UK:- Deadline for completed applications is 5pm (UK time) on 21st July 2019. #globaled #intergroupcontact #PhD

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One Globe Kids - make friends around the world One Globe Kids is an award-winning library of stories from children around the world, friendship activities and education resources. Let's explore the world together!

Exploring the world with young kids? A new friend will help them see, think and wonder about how we are all unique AND pretty similar. Try it with One Globe Kids:#makefriendsaroundtheworld #travelwithkids #stories #intergroupcontact

oneglobekids.org

Why diverse friendships are good for kids Contact ready children have the confidence, skills, beliefs and experiences that encourage them to engage positively with diverse cross-group peers.

A6: I hope that #ReadYourWorld books will teach children to make more diverse friends:#ReadYourWorld #friendsmaketheworldgoround #intergroupcontact

globesmartkids.org/research/diver…

How Empathy Guided this President to Push for Civil Rights:#MLKDay #empathy #intergroupcontact #maketheforeignfeelfamiliar

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Video Game Can Change the Brain, May Improve Empathy in Middle School Children Can video games teach prosocial skills such as empathy? A new study from the Center for Healthy Minds suggests that it's possible

Video Game Changes the Brain and May Improve Empathy in Middle School Children - Center for Healthy Mindsvia @healthyminds #prosocialbehavior #intergroupcontact #edtech #goodtech

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