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Overview

Jake Harwood is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States and works primarily in the fields of social sciences and psychology. Their research focuses on areas including sociology and political science, social psychology, communication, gender studies, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of study cover social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, social media and politics, communication in education and healthcare, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, international student and expatriate challenges, and gender diversity and inequality.

Harwood has published in several academic venues, frequently contributing to the International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Communication Monographs, and Media Psychology.

Recent papers by Harwood include:

  • Social Identity Theory (2020) in The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology
  • Modes of intergroup contact: If and how to interact with the outgroup (2021) in Journal of Social Issues

Frequent collaborators with Harwood are:

  • Hyeonchang Gim (9 coauthored works)
  • Стефаниа Паолини (4 coauthored works)
  • Heather Gahler (4 coauthored works)
  • Tiana Case (3 coauthored works)
  • Mark Rubin (2 coauthored works)

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Negative Intergroup Contact Makes Group Memberships Salient: Explaining Why Intergroup Conflict Endures

    Stefania Paolini;Jake Harwood;Mark Rubin

  • The genesis of vitality theory: historical patterns and discoursal dimensions

    Jake Harwood;Howard Giles;Richard Y. Bourhis

  • A Social Cognitive Theory Approach to the Effects of Mediated Intergroup Contact on Intergroup Attitudes

    Michelle Ortiz;Jake Harwood

  • Rapid assessment of well-being: The Short Depression-Happiness Scale (SDHS).

    Stephen Joseph;P. Alex Linley;Jake Harwood;Christopher Alan Lewis

  • Age Identification, Social Identity Gratifications, and Television Viewing.

    Jake Harwood

  • Grandparent-Grandchild Contact and Attitudes Toward Older Adults: Moderator and Mediator Effects

    Jake Harwood;Miles Hewstone;Stefania Paolini;Alberto Voci

  • Intergroup Contact and Grandparent-Grandchild Communication: The Effects of Self-Disclosure on Implicit and Explicit Biases Against Older People

    Tania Tam;Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Jake Harwood;Alberto Voci

  • Improving Intergroup Attitudes through Televised Vicarious Intergroup Contact Social Cognitive Processing of Ingroup and Outgroup Information

    Nick Joyce;Jake Harwood

  • The Contact Space: A Novel Framework for Intergroup Contact Research

    Jake Harwood

  • Viewing age: Lifespan identity and television viewing choices

    Jake Harwood

  • Communicative Predictors of Solidarity in the Grandparent-Grandchild Relationship

    Jake Harwood

  • Shared Family Identity, Age Salience, and Intergroup Contact: Investigation of the Grandparent–Grandchild Relationship

    Jordan Soliz;Jake Harwood

  • Aging, communication, and intergroup theory: Social identity and intergenerational communication.

    Jake Harwood;Howard Giles;Ellen B. Ryan

  • Secondary transfer effects from imagined contact: Group similarity affects the generalization gradient

    Jake Harwood;Stefania Paolini;Nick Joyce;Mark Rubin

  • Underrepresented, positively portrayed: Older adults in television commercials

    Abhik Roy;Jake Harwood

  • Intergroup communication : multiple perspectives

    Jake Harwood;Howard Giles

  • Modernization and Tradition in an Age of Globalization: Cultural Values in Chinese Television Commercials

    Yan Bing Zhang;Jake Harwood

  • The Portrayal of Older Adults in Advertising: A Cross-National Review

    Yan Bing Zhang;Jake Harwood;Angie Williams;Virpi Ylänne-McEwen

  • Affiliation, Pride, Exchange, and Distance in Grandparents' Accounts of Relationships with Their College-Aged Grandchildren.

    Jake Harwood;Mei-Chen Lin

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Giles
Howard Giles University of California, Santa Barbara
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Alberto Voci
Alberto Voci University of Padua
Cindy Gallois
Cindy Gallois University of Queensland
Mary Lee Hummert
Mary Lee Hummert University of Kansas
Ellen Bouchard Ryan
Ellen Bouchard Ryan McMaster University
Chris Segrin
Chris Segrin University of Arizona
Mark Rubin
Mark Rubin Durham University
Nicole Tausch
Nicole Tausch University of St Andrews
Ed Cairns
Ed Cairns University of Ulster

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