This article presents the 2021 JSI special issue on intergroup contact, which we designed to
offer a fresh outlook on a rapidly expanding literature on the antecedents, dynamics, and …

Colourism is a form of prejudice and discrimination based on skin shade, disadvantaging
people of colour with darker skin. This study investigates the relationship between perceived …

There is a lay assumption that women’s sexual desire varies substantially over time, whereas
men’s is stable. This assumption is mirrored in prominent theories of desire, which posit …

This study investigated the effects of ingroup contact in a large, national sample of Māori (a
disadvantaged ethnic group; N= 940) on political attitudes relevant to decreasing ethnic …

Background and Objectives Interventions to retain existing donors are essential to increase
the blood supply. Blood donor self‐identity is proposed to motivate sustained donation …

Relationship standards are beliefs about what is important in high‐quality couple relationships.
Clarifying standards cross‐culturally informs theory about relationship quality and goals …

The term disability, however, is not limited to health conditions. In fact, the International
Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health views disability as an umbrella term (World …

Background Negative body image can result in sexual dysfunction for both women and men.
Drive for thinness, drive for muscularity and drive for leanness have all been associated …

A four-wave survey on a national probabilistic sample (N = 17,399) tested novel predictions
about how positive and negative contact with racial out-groups predicts warmth and anger …

We conducted the first systematic text mining review of online media coverage of genome-wide
association studies (GWAS) and analyzed trends in media coverage, readability, themes, …