Classroom ethnic diversity, teacher support and peer victimization: Evidence from four European countries psyarxiv.com/fzkt3/ via Center for Open Science Great collaboration with Philipp Jugert Tibor Zingora, but difficult concept #diversity

Please get in touch if you have any unpublished research for our meta-analysis on intergroup contact!

Do native and migrant-origin children influence each other’s grades in school? Our research suggests only classroom ties with natives matter. Friendship segregation, then, can potentially exacerbate achievement gaps. Read more in our new IY Fact Sheet 👉api.integrateyouth.org/wp-content/upl…

🚨 New paper on the between- and within-person effects of intergroup contact on prejudice, and what can(not) explain contact-prejudice associations (personality, ideology, ...). With Maria-Therese Friehs, Nils Reimer, Ralf, Peter, Ulrich, Miles 🚨 doi.org/10.1177/194855…

Across three studies we find no evidence of the ironic effect of intergroup contact - instead we find that ingroup contact shapes perceptions of discrimination through socialization. New paper out in JPSP! doi.org/10.1037/pspi00… Nils Reimer Nikhil Sengupta Chris G Sibley

Planning your agenda for Saturday at #easp2023krk ? Check out our symposium on intergroup relations between Muslim and non-Muslim youth, focusing on attitudes, religiosity and social segregation. Starting at 17:30 in the Small Auditorium!

Excited to share our new paper titled “A Global Experience-Sampling Method Study of Well-Being During Times of Crisis: The CoCo Project”, out today with #openaccess at Social and Personality Psychology Compass! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sp…

Interested in social networks and intergroup relations? If so, consider joining a new mailing list where you can share papers, post (and receive) job opportunities, or ask for information. 🤠 Join👉groups.io/g/networks-int… More information ℹ️ groups.io/g/networks-int…

🚨 New paper in which we find low levels of interethnic friendship – but equally low levels of interethnic bullying – in school social networks doi.org/10.1177/237802… Together with Olivia Spiegler and Jan Jonsson 🚨

This week I start a 3-year British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship! I’m working on a new research project – ‘Breaking boundaries: Understanding the socio-psychological drivers of ethnic integration in schools’. Hopefully I’ll have some exciting findings to share soon...

If you’re going to #SPSP2024, come check out our symposium Friday at 3:45pm to hear some great talks by Catalina Enestrom, Trevor Spelman, and Chloe Bracegirdle on how our understanding of reality is shaped through social influences! 😊

Our paper on #wellbeing after the outbreak of war in #Ukraine is out today with #openaccess Nature Communications! rdcu.be/dy7h0 This paper represents a collaborative effort of >50 authors to unveil the psychological implications of the war. For a summary, read the thread! 🧵1/9

Really enjoyed our Lab Meets Lab session with Helping Kids! & OxInteract!🫂It was a pleasure to hear about the exciting work that everyone is working on and establish some connections for (potential) future collaborations 📚 Thank you Isabelle Zammit for organising!

Our shiny new research group in Oxford ExpPsychology now has an X account of its very own. Give OxInteract a follow to find out more about who we are the work that we are doing. Exciting times ahead!

Out now in Association for Psychological Science 👇 A largesale analysis in India showing that benevolent sexist attitudes which say that "women should be protected by men" can actually justify violence within intimate relationships journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09… #sexism #domesticviolence #genderequality

🚨 Job Alert: Social/Politcal Psychology 🚨 I’m hiring a #postdoc for a longitudinal survey project on political attitudes funded by an ERC Starting Grant PSYPOL 📊 Psychology & Public Policy Research Unit Psychology at Kent - 2 yrs fixed. Deadline July 19. More info in the thread, in the linked person spec, or

So thrilled that this paper showing how perceptions of discrimination are shaped by one’s social networks over time, led by Chloe Bracegirdle and with Nils Reimer, Danny Osborne, Ralf Wölfer and Chris G Sibley, has received the Gordon Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from SPSSI

👀 Are you working on intergroup relations in social networks? Consider submitting an abstract to our related session at SUNBELT 2025 INSNA, held in Paris in June 2025. Submissions are open until February 20th: sunbelt2025.org

Call for Abstracts for a special issue of the British Journal of Social Psychology: Contact seeking, contact avoidance and the enduring challenge of segregation easp.eu/news/itm/?id=2…

📣 Submissions are now open for the BPS BPS Social Psychology Section annual conference taking place at Lady Margaret Hall from 8-10 September. Submission deadline 23rd April 2025. Come join us! bps.org.uk/event/social-p…