School of Psychology

MSc Level - I contribute to PSY 7054 Theoretical Perspectives and Focal Issues in Political Psychology

BSc Level - I contribute to PSY1001 - Introductory Psychology 1 and PSY2060 Social Psychology and Individual Differences

Director of Research, Identities, Groups, and Social Change Research Cluster

My research looks at which forms of intergroup contact best reduce prejudice, how and why they do so, and what consequences they have for intergroup relations. Specifically, I have studied the effect of several different forms of intergroup contact in reducing prejudice, including cross-group friendship (Turner & Feddes, 2011), extended contact (Turner, Hewstone, Voci, & Vonofakou, 2008), and imagined contact (Crisp & Turner, 2012; Turner & West, 2012). I am also interested in the impact of social identity (Turner & Crisp, 2010) and multiple categorization (Crisp & Turner, 2011) on intergroup relations. My research also extends into applying research on nostalgia to the study of intergroup relations (Turner, Wildschut, & Sedikides, 2011). I have held research grants from the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, and the British Academy.

Professor Rhiannon Turner's Full Publication List

Books

Crisp, R. J. & Turner, R. N. (2010). Essential Social Psychology: 2nd Edition. London: Sage (also published in Italian)

Crisp, R. J., & Turner, R. N. (2007). Essential Social Psychology. London: Sage (also published in Simplified Chinese, Complex Chinese, Polish and Portuguese).

Papers

Turner, R. N., Dhont, K., Hewstone, M., Prestwich, A., & Vonofakou, C. (in press). The role of personality factors in the reduction of intergroup anxiety and amelioration of outgroup attitudes via intergroup contact. European Journal of Personality.

West, K. & Turner, R. N. (in press). Using extended contact to improve physiological responses and behavior toward people with schizophrenia. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

Stathi, S., Crisp, R. J., Turner, R. N., West, K., & Birtel, M., & (in press). Using mental imagery to promote positive intergroup relations. In D. W. Russell (Ed.) The psychology of prejudice.?

Turner, R. N., Wildschut, T., Sedikides, C., & Gheorghiu, M. (2013). Combating the mental health stigma with nostalgia. European Journal of Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/ejsp.1952

Hutter, R., Wood, C., & Turner, R. N. (2013). Individuation moderates impressions of conflicting categories for slower processors. Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1027/1864-9335/a000108

Turner, R. N., Tam, T., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J., & Cairns, E. (2013). Contact between Catholic and Protestant schoolchildren in Northern Ireland. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12018

Turner, R. N., West, K., & Christie, Z. (2013). Outgroup trust, intergroup anxiety, and outgroup attitude as mediators of the effect of imagined intergroup contact on intergroup behavioural tendencies. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. DOI: 10.1111/jasp.12019

Crisp, R. J., & Turner, R. N. (2012). The imagined intergroup contact hypothesis. In M. P. Zanna & J. Olson (Eds.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology (vol. 46, pp. 125-182). Burlington: Academic Press.

Crisp, R. J., & Turner, R. N. (2012). Imagined intergroup contact.In G. Hodson & M. Hewstone (Eds.), Advances in Intergroup Contact (pp. 135-151). Hove: Psychology Press (Taylor & Francis)

Turner, R. N., & West, K. (2012). Behavioural consequences of imagining intergroup contact with stigmatized outgroups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 15, 193-202.

Turner, R. N., Wildschut, T., & Sedikides, C. (2011). Dropping the weight stigma: Nostalgia improves attitudes toward persons who are overweight. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48, 130-137.

Cameron, L., Rutland, A., Turner, R. N., Blake, B., Holman-Nicolas, R., & Powell, C. (2011). Changing attitudes with a little imagination: Imagined contact effects on young children's implicit attitudes. Anale de Psicologia, 27, 708-717.

Crisp, R.J., & Turner, R. N. (2011). Cognitive adaptation to the experience of social and cultural diversity. Psychological Bulletin, 137, 242-266.

Hewstone, M., Crisp, R. J., & Turner, R. N. (2011). Perceptions of gender group variability in majority and minority contexts: Two field studies with nurses and police officers. Social Psychology, 42, 135-143

Swart, H., Turner, R. N., Hewstone, M., & Voci, A. (2011). Achieving outgroup forgiveness and outgroup trust: The importance of cross-group friendships, self-disclosure, and empathy. In L.R. Tropp & R. Mallett (Eds.), Beyond Prejudice Reduction: Pathways to Positive Intergroup Relations (pp. 181-200). Oxford University Press.

Turner, R. N., & Feddes, A. (2011). How intergroup friendship works: A longitudinal study of friendship effects on outgroup attitudes. European Journal of Social Psychology, 41, 914-923.

Cameron, L., & Turner, R. N. (2010). The application of diversity-based interventions to policy and practice. In R. J. Crisp. (Ed.), The Psychology of Social and Cultural Diversity (pp. 322-352). Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Crisp, R.J., Husnu, S., Meleady, R., Stathi, S., & Turner, R. N. (2010). From imagery to intention: A dual route model of imagined contact effects.  European Review of Social Psychology, 21, 188-236.

Crisp, R. J., & Turner, R. N. (2010). Have confidence in contact. American Psychologist, 65, 133-134.

Crisp, R. J., Turner, R. N., & Hewstone, M. (2010). Common ingroups and complex identities: Routes to reducing bias in multiple category contexts. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 14, 32-46

Turner, R. N. (2010). Imagining harmonious intergroup relations [Doctoral Award Article]. The Psychologist, 23, 298-301.

Turner, R. N., & Crisp, R. J. (2010). Imagining intergroup contact reduces implicit prejudice. British Journal of Social Psychology, 49, 129-142

Turner, R. N., & Crisp, R. J. (2010). Explaining threats from common ingroups: A self-regulation theory analysis. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, 13, 251-261.

Turner, R. N., & Hewstone, M. (2010). Attribution biases. In J. Levine, & M. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Turner, R. N., & Hewstone, M. (2010). Mutual intergroup differentiation model. In J. Levine, & M. Hogg (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Turner, R. N., & Hewstone, M. (2010). Intergroup contact. N. Young (Ed.). The international encyclopedia of peace, Volume 2 (pp. 426-30). New York, NY and Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Turner, R. N., & Hewstone, M. (2010). Threat and fear. N. Young (Ed.). The international encyclopedia of peace, Volume 4 (pp. 160-163). New York, NY and Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Turner, R. N., & Hewstone, M. (2010). The social psychology of prejudice. In A. Pelinka, K. Bischof, & K. Stögner (Eds.). The handbook of prejudice (pp. 303-344). Amherst, NY: Cambria Press (now also published in German, 2011, by de Gruyter)

Turner, R. N., Hewstone, M., Swart, H., Tam, T., Myers, E., & Tausch, N. (2010). Promoting intergroup trust among adolescents and young adults. InK. Rotenberg (Ed.), Trust and Trustworthiness during Childhood and Adolescence pp. 295-321). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Crisp, R. J., & Turner, R. N. (2009). Can imagined interactions produce positive perceptions? Reducing prejudice through simulated social contact. American Psychologist, 64, 231-240.