Welcome to the International Contact Research Network Bluesky! 👋 We bring together intergroup contact researchers from around the world to share work, exchange ideas, and build collaborations. Follow us here for news, updates, and upcoming events from across the network.

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch #PsychSciSky Our new paper out in American Psychologist. Led by Meleady, with @debshulman.bsky.social, Kotzur, & Crisp. Contact "ruptures" (going to university; studying abroad) ==> changes in outgroup attitudes longitudinally psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

We created the Collected Intergroup Intellectual Humility Scale In 10 studies (N~6,000) we combined 10 existing measures into 1 measure that assess how humble people are as individuals & in groups Summary www.centerconflictcooperation-newsletter.com/p/the-collec... Preprint osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Collected Intergroup Intellectual Humility Scale: New Preprint

We give you a sneak peak a new preprint where we discuss how Intellectual Humility is measured + we created a consolidated scale.

centerconflictcooperation-newsletter.com

Just published! Across 25k+ participants, intergroup contact (with people who are gay, transgender, or those with disabilities) weakens the link between intolerance of uncertainty and intergroup bias. Contact "liberalizes" the mind by reducing dependence on bias to manage discomfort with uncertainty

Gordon Hodson@gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · last yr.

New contact liberalization paper, led by postdoc @debshulman.bsky.social (w/ Rich Crisp & Rose Meleady). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #PrejudiceResearch

Can learning from past peace processes help promote peace in ongoing conflict? Check out our new paper (with Michal Reifen-Tagar, Noa Omri, and Eran Halperin @picr-lab.bsky.social ) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1/

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

#PrejudiceResearch New paper alert! journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... Led by postdoc @debshulman.bsky.social, we tested longitudinal intergroup contact in 3 studies, each w/ 5-waves of data. RI-CLPM. Examined daily, weekly, or monthly contact. 1/

Out now as pre-print (and looking for a forever-home), 'Best practies and ethical considerations for crowd-sourced data in the behavioral sciences'. We took hundreds and hundreds of studies on Prolific and wrote about the good, the bad, and the fundamentally unethical. osf.io/preprints/os...

New paper by @shreevallabha.bsky.social & co: Blaming current groups for their ancestors atrocities (historical blame) is something that happens AND is not well accounted for by existing psychological models of blame 🔒 psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-... 🔐 osf.io/j3vp9

New call for papers, special issue on intergroup contact (primary, secondary, tertiary effects) at JCASP. Editorial team led by Rose Meleady. I'm also pleased to answer questions. Consider submitting your paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...