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Aaron Lauterbach

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PhD Candidate in Social Psychology at Western Sydney University | Intergroup Contact | ACSPRI Fellow 26/27

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 21/01/2026

Towards a habit-rupture model of intergroup contact in everyday settings Perspective by S.Paolini, J.Dixon, P.F.Kotzur, M.-T.Friehs, C.Bracegirdle, A.Lauterbach, J.Köbrich, S.Graf, M Kauff, A.Stefaniak, S.C.Wright, F.K.Barlow, K.Luebbering & J.Harwood FREE for 1 month (with signup/login)

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The literature assumes that intergroup contact is naturally occurring, positive and consistently associated with positive outcomes, but these premises are inconsistent with everyday intergroup contact...

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch New paper out by Paolini et al. on habit-ruptures in intergroup contact www.nature.com/articles/s44... (If you like that, our also team has a related paper in press at American Psychologist, led by Rose Meleady) psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

New work by Stefania Paolini & Patrick Kotzur (@durhampsych.bsky.social) and international team proposes a rupture-habit model to make sense of emerging findings in everyday intergroup contact. Paywall: doi.org/10.1038/s441... Free Access Link: trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...

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According to intergroup contact theory, meaningful interactions between members of different social identity groups can lead to decreases in prejudice. However, the literature on intergroup contact has generally emphasized contact-based interventions that involve positive contact experiences in highly controlled environments like research laboratories or classrooms, or infrequent intimate intergroup contact experiences, like intergroup friendships. In this Perspective, we review the literature on how intergroup contact manifests in everyday settings, which challenges established views that contact is readily available, positive and leads to consistently positive within-person changes. We describe how variations in contact valence and environmental affordances for self-selection influence individual- and macro-level segregation dynamics, which create conditions for stable trajectories of contact and intergroup bias, or contact habits. We then propose a habit–rupture model of contact, according to which changes in intergroup relations through lifespan and macro-level disruptions act as ruptures, leading to the development of new contact habits. Considering contact and its effects through a habit and rupture lens identifies realistic and ecologically valid opportunities to apply intergroup contact in the service of the social good.

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✨🦋Jeannette Jaybird🦋✨ @jeannettejaybird.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The right-wing dominates cable news viewership and online shows in the USA.

Graph with blue and red bubble showing how the right wing dominates the media.

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 03/02/2025

A framework for understanding effective allyship Review by Evava S. Pietri, Charlotte E. Moser, Veronica Derricks & India R. Johnson Web: go.nature.com/4hISncq PDF: rdcu.be/d8tYJ #psychology #socialpsych

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