School of Psychology

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Prejudice, Intergroup Contact and Social Categorisation

Research on this topic illustrates the links between theory-driven research and its application to real and important social issues in Social Psychology. Much of the research is conducted through the Centre for the Study of Group Processes (CSGP) and is carried out in our social psychology laboratories, at schools and in business organizations.

Research within this topic focuses on questions such as how contact between members of different social groups is represented psychologically, how intergroup contact affect prejudice in school children, how cognitive interviews affect children’s use of stereotypes, and why organizational mergers sometimes fail.

Core academic staff

Professor Dominic Abrams
Dr Lindsey Cameron
Professor Richard Crisp
Professor Adam Rutland
Dr Tendayi Viki

School of Psychology - Keynes College, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NP

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Last Updated: 05/12/2011