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Overview

Kevin Durrheim is affiliated with the University of Johannesburg in South Africa and has contributed to research primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their work spans diverse topics, with a notable focus on social and intergroup psychology as well as cultural differences and values.

Their recent publications include the following papers:

  • "It's not just 'us' versus 'them': Moving beyond binary perspectives on intergroup processes," 2020, European Review of Social Psychology
  • "Using word embeddings to investigate cultural biases," 2022, British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Conversational Silencing of Racism in Psychological Science: Toward Decolonization in Practice," 2023, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Everyday dehumanization: Negative contact, humiliation, and the lived experience of being treated as 'less than human'," 2022, British Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Speaker landscapes: machine learning opens a window on the everyday language of opinion," 2023, Communication Methods and Measures

Durrheim's frequent co-authors include:

  • Maria Schuld
  • Amy Jo Murray
  • Michael Quayle
  • Kevin Igwe
  • John Dixon

The scientist commonly publishes in journals such as:

  • British Journal of Social Psychology
  • European Review of Social Psychology
  • Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
  • Scientific Reports
  • EPJ Data Science

Their research incorporates subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, General Health Professions, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Key topics covered in their work are:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Migration, Refugees, and Integration
  • Topic Modeling

Kevin Durrheim's work often explores the dynamics of social interactions, cultural biases, and the intersection of language and social influence using methods that include computational approaches like machine learning. This interdisciplinary approach reflects their engagement across both psychological and sociological dimensions of human behavior and social structure.

Best Publications

  • Many Labs 2: Investigating Variation in Replicability Across Samples and Settings

    Richard A. Klein;Michelangelo Vianello;Fred Hasselman;Byron G. Adams

  • Displacing place‐identity: A discursive approach to locating self and other

    John Dixon;Kevin Durrheim

  • Beyond the optimal contact strategy: a reality check for the contact hypothesis.

    John Dixon;Kevin Durrheim;Colin Tredoux

  • Beyond prejudice: are negative evaluations the problem and is getting us to like one another more the solution?

    John Dixon;Mark Levine;Steve Reicher;Kevin Durrheim

  • Dislocating identity: Desegregation and the transformation of place

    John A. Dixon;Kevin Durrheim

  • Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Toward the Principle and Practice of Racial Equality

    John Dixon;Kevin Durrheim;Colin Tredoux

  • Contact and the ecology of racial division: Some varieties of informal segregation

    John Dixon;Kevin Durrheim

  • Social Dominance in Context and in Individuals: Contextual Moderation of Robust Effects of Social Dominance Orientation in 15 Languages and 20 Countries

    Felicia Pratto;Atilla Çidam;Andrew L. Stewart;Fouad Bou Zeineddine

  • “Let Them Eat Harmony” Prejudice-Reduction Strategies and Attitudes of Historically Disadvantaged Groups

    John Dixon;Linda R. Tropp;Kevin Durrheim;Colin Tredoux

  • Race Trouble: Race, Identity and Inequality in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Kevin Durrheim;Xoliswa Mtose;Lyndsay Brown

  • Validation of the HIV/AIDS Stigma Instrument - PLWA (HASI-P)

    William L Holzemer;Leana R Uys;Maureen L Chirwa;Minrie Greeff

  • A paradox of integration? Interracial contact, prejudice reduction and perceptions of racial discrimination

    John Dixon;Kevin Durrheim;Colin Tredoux;Linda Tropp

  • Racial Encounter: The Social Psychology of Contact and Desegregation

    Kevin Durrheim;John A. Dixon

  • The role of place and metaphor in racial exclusion : South Africa's beaches as sites of shifting racialization

    Kevin Durrheim;John A. Dixon

  • Foucauldian feminism: The implications of governmentality

    Catriona Macleod;Kevin Durrheim

  • Social Constructionism, Discourse, and Psychology

    Kevin Durrheim

  • The Effectiveness of the Vignette Methodology: A Comparison of Written and Video Vignettes in Eliciting Responses about Date Rape

    Michelle Sleed;Kevin Durrheim;Anita Kriel;Vernon Solomon

  • Attitudes in the Fiber of Everyday Life: The Discourse of Racial Evaluation and the Lived Experience of Desegregation.

    Kevin Durrheim;John Dixon

  • Evaluation of a health setting-based stigma intervention in five African countries.

    Leana Uys;Maureen Chirwa;Thecla Kohi;Minrie Greeff

  • Different Kinds of Knowing Generating Qualitative Data Through Mobile Interviewing

    Lyndsay Brown;Kevin Durrheim

  • Racial Contact and Change in South Africa

    Kevin Durrheim;John Dixon

  • Studying talk and embodied practices : toward a psychology of materiality of ‘race relations’.

    Kevin Durrheim;John Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Felicia Pratto
Felicia Pratto University of Connecticut
Joseph T. Mullan
Joseph T. Mullan University of California, San Francisco
Orla T. Muldoon
Orla T. Muldoon University of Limerick
James H. Liu
James H. Liu Massey University
Linda R. Tropp
Linda R. Tropp University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tamar Saguy
Tamar Saguy Reichman University
Reginald B. Adams
Reginald B. Adams Pennsylvania State University
Yarrow Dunham
Yarrow Dunham Yale University
Tom Postmes
Tom Postmes University of Groningen
Nick Neave
Nick Neave Northumbria University

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