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Mass social contact interventions and their effect on mental health related stigma and intended discrimination

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Stigma and discrimination associated with mental health problems is an important public health issue, and interventions aimed at reducing exposure to stigma and discrimination can improve the lives of people with mental health problems. Social
Evans-Lacko Sara, London Jillian, Japhet Sarah, Rüsch Nicolas, Flach Clare, Corker Elizabeth, Henderson Claire, Thornicroft Graham   +7 more
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“We’re all Squares on a Screen”: Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Opportunities and Limitations of Online Intergroup Dialogue

Online Learning
Postsecondary institutions are seeing the need and searching for ways to prepare their students for life in an increasingly complex and often polarized society.
Grant Jackson, Sarah Schiffecker, Oleksandra Poquet   +2 more
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SOCIAL MEDIA AND ONLINE INTERGROUP CONTACT: THE ROLE OF ALLPORT’S CONDITIONS FOR SEXUAL MAJORITIES AND MINORITIES

Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology
This study investigated online intergroup contact between heterosexual men and women (the ma-jority) and gay men and lesbian women (the minority) and tested whether Allport’s optimal conditions — cooperation, common goals, equal status, and authority support — moderate the positive effects of online contact quality on intergroup attitudes and outgroup ...
Faccini, Martina, Boin, Jessica, White, Fiona, Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga, Shamloo, Soraya Elizabeth, Cocco, Veronica Margherita, Esmaeili-Kolahdooz, Mashid, Trifiletti, Elena   +7 more
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Breaking barriers: The impact of intergroup contact on bystanders' actions against bias-based cyberbullying

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace
Bystanders are present in most bullying and cyberbullying incidents, and when they intervene in favor of the victim, they can effectively stop it. Evidence suggests that intergroup factors, such as social identification, increase bystanders’ helping ...
Raquel António, Rita Guerra, Lindsey Cameron, Carla Moleiro   +3 more
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Training to reduce LGBTQ-related bias among medical, nursing, and dental students and providers: a systematic review

BMC Medical Education, 2019
Background Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) individuals experience higher rates of health disparities. These disparities may be driven, in part, by biases of medical providers encountered in health care settings.
Matthew Morris, Robert Lyle Cooper, Aramandla Ramesh, Mohammad Tabatabai, Thomas A. Arcury, Marybeth Shinn, Wansoo Im, Paul Juarez, Patricia Matthews-Juarez   +8 more
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Urban-Suburban Differences in Public Perspectives on Digitalizing Pediatric Research: Cross-Sectional Survey Study

Journal of Medical Internet Research
BackgroundRecruiting and retaining participants in pediatric research has always been challenging, particularly in healthy populations and remote areas, leading to selection bias and increased health disparities.
Heping Fang, Ruoling Xian, Juan Li, Yingcun Li, Enmei Liu, Yan Zhao, Yan Hu   +6 more
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The role of social norms, intergroup contact, and ingroup favoritism in weight stigma.

PLoS ONE
Although average body size in the U.S. has increased in recent decades, stigma directed at individuals with higher weight has not diminished. In this study, we explored this phenomenon by investigating the relationship between people's perceived social ...
Erin C Standen, Andrew Ward, Traci Mann
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Parent engagement with a short, animated storytelling video aimed at reducing stigma towards transgender children and adolescents: Post-trial assessment of a randomized controlled trial

SSM - Mental Health
Background: Transgender adolescents commonly experience hate speech on social media, contributing to transphobia and adverse health outcomes. While social media can increase polarization and stigma towards vulnerable groups, they may also facilitate ...
Merlin Greuel, Doron Amsalem, Misha Seeff, Jennifer Gates, Shuyan Liu, Andrés Martin, Till Bärnighausen, Maya Adam   +7 more
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Promoting Support for Public Health Policies Through Mediated Contact: Can Narrator Perspective and Self-Disclosure Curb In-Group Favoritism?

International Journal of Communication, 2019
An online 2 × 2 factorial experiment (N = 203) examined the effect of parasocial contact on support for public health policies in the context of opioid addiction.
Riva Tukachinsky, Emily Brogan-Freitas, Tessa Urbanovich   +2 more
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Social Media and Online Intergroup Contact : The Role of Allport's Conditions for Sexual Majorities and Minorities

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Faccini, Martina, Boin, Jessica, White, Fiona, Jasinskaja-Lahti, Inga, Hamloo, Soraya, Occo, Veronica, Olahdooz, Mahshid Smaeili, Rifiletti, Elena   +7 more
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