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Stefania Paolini
Researcher at University of Newcastle
Publications - 65
Citations - 3538
Stefania Paolini is an academic researcher from University of Newcastle. The author has contributed to research in topics: Outgroup & Ingroups and outgroups. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 59 publications receiving 3051 citations. Previous affiliations of Stefania Paolini include Information Technology University & Newcastle University.
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Effects of Direct and Indirect Cross-Group Friendships on Judgments of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: The Mediating Role of an Anxiety-Reduction Mechanism
TL;DR: It is argued that emerging generalization hypotheses help to integrate both cognition and affect and interpersonal and intergroup approaches to contact.
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The Contact Caveat Negative Contact Predicts Increased Prejudice More Than Positive Contact Predicts Reduced Prejudice
Fiona Kate Barlow,Stefania Paolini,Anne Pedersen,Matthew J. Hornsey,Helena R. M. Radke,Jake Harwood,Mark Rubin,Chris G. Sibley +7 more
TL;DR: Negative contact may be more strongly associated with increased racism and discrimination than positive contact is with its reduction, and the contact hypothesis is extended by issuing an important caveat.
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Negative Intergroup Contact Makes Group Memberships Salient: Explaining Why Intergroup Conflict Endures
TL;DR: The novel hypothesis of a valence-salience effect, whereby negative contact causes higher category salience than positive contact is advanced, suggests that intergroup contact is potentially biased toward worsening intergroup relations.
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Grandparent-Grandchild Contact and Attitudes Toward Older Adults: Moderator and Mediator Effects
TL;DR: This paper investigated the role of various mediators of the link between quality of contact and attitudes and perceived out-group variability in the context of the grandparent-grandchild relationship and found that perspective taking, anxiety, and accommodation mediated the effects of contact on attitudes.
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Reducing prejudice via direct and extended cross-group friendship.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review research on two types of cross-group friendship, i.e., direct and extended, and highlight the respective strengths and weaknesses of these two types and illustrate how they might be combined in efforts to improve intergroup relations.