Simon Lolliot

TL;DR: Positive contact reduces prejudice on a macrolevel, whereby people are influenced by the behavior of others in their social context, not merely on a microscale, via individuals’ direct experience of positive contact with outgroup members.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on their efforts to add to the emerging body of literature by exploring the possible rolesthat direct and extended contact play in (post-) conflict societies; asking when we might or might not expect contact to positively affect more demanding outcomes(such as intergroup trust and forgiveness); and investigating the processes by which contact achieves these outcomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of positive and negative direct and extended intergroup contact on intergroup orientations was conducted in Iceland, showing that the positive effects of positive contact were mostly as strong as the detrimental effects of negative contact.

TL;DR: It is found that mathematicians were more accurate compared with nonmathematicians when mapping positive, but not negative numbers, which are considered numerical primitives and cultural artifacts, respectively, and this finding might suggest a link between basic and advanced mathematical skills.

TL;DR: It is shown that transcranial random noise stimulation over the bilateral dorsolateral prefrontal cortices improved learning and performance of children with mathematical learning disabilities (MLD) during arithmetic training compared to those who received sham (placebo) tRNS.