APS

2025 APS Annual Convention

Rethinking Intergroup Contact

Friday, May 23, 2025 · Washington, DC

Oral · Social

Intergroup contact is psychology’s most researched strategy for reducing prejudice and fostering political solidarity. New studies, however, call on researchers to rethink what we know about intergroup contact by asking whether intergroup contact actually works, what it measures, and how it translates to interminority relations (total N = 54465).

Chairs & Discussants

  • Nils Karl ReimerChair
    University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Elizabeth Page-GouldCoChair
    University of Toronto

Presentations

  1. A Large-Scale 13-Year Test of the within-Person Effects of Intergroup ContactNikhil Sengupta
  2. Mis-Measuring Intergroup FriendshipNils Karl Reimer
  3. Different Degrees of Intergroup: A Model of Asian American Ingroups and Intergroup Contact ExperiencesZi Ting You