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110
Citations
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World Ranking
392
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1987 - Spearman Medal, British Psychological Society

Overview

Miles Hewstone is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research mainly focuses on social sciences and psychology, with a notable emphasis on social and intergroup psychology. The subfields of study that characterize their work include sociology and political science, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, gender studies, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The topics covered by Hewstone's research are diverse, encompassing social and intergroup psychology, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, racial and ethnic identity research, social capital and networks, gender diversity and inequality, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hewstone include:

  • "Intergroup contact is reliably associated with reduced prejudice, even in the face of group threat and discrimination." (2023), published in American Psychologist
  • "Online Engagement Between Opposing Political Protest Groups via Social Media is Linked to Physical Violence of Offline Encounters" (2021), published in Social Media + Society
  • "COVID-19 threat and perceptions of common belonging with outgroups: The roles of prejudice-related individual differences and intergroup contact" (2021), published in Personality and Individual Differences
  • "Close to me: The importance of closeness versus superficiality in explaining the positive-negative contact asymmetry" (2020), published in European Journal of Social Psychology
  • "Disentangling contact and socialization effects on outgroup attitudes in diverse friendship networks." (2021), published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Hewstone frequently publishes in several venues, including:

  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • European Journal of Social Psychology
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

Their work involves collaboration with several co-authors, notably:

  • Katharina Schmid
  • Ralf Wölfer
  • Oliver Christ
  • Miguel R. Ramos
  • Francesca Prati

Among professional recognitions, Hewstone was awarded the Spearman Medal by the British Psychological Society in 1987.

Best Publications

  • An integrative theory of intergroup contact

    Rupert Brown;Miles Hewstone

  • Intergroup Bias

    Unknown

  • Contact is not enough: An intergroup perspective on the 'contact hypothesis.'

    Miles Hewstone;Rupert Brown

  • Dimensions of Contact as Predictors of Intergroup Anxiety, Perceived Out-Group Variability, and Out-Group Attitude: An Integrative Model

    Mir Rabiul Islam;Miles Hewstone

  • Social Identity Theory's Self-Esteem Hypothesis: A Review and Some Suggestions for Clarification

    Mark Rubin;Miles Hewstone

  • Causal Attribution: From Cognitive Processes to Collective Beliefs

    Miles Hewstone

  • The ‘ultimate attribution error’? A review of the literature on intergroup causal attribution

    Miles Hewstone

  • Intergroup Contact and Prejudice Toward Immigrants in Italy: The Mediational Role of Anxiety and the Moderational Role of Group Salience:

    Alberto Voci;Miles Hewstone

  • Reducing explicit and implicit outgroup prejudice via direct and extended contact: The mediating role of self-disclosure and intergroup anxiety.

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci

  • I NTERGROUP B IAS

    Miles Hewstone;Mark Rubin;Hazel Willis

  • Contact and Conflict in Intergroup Encounters

    Miles Hewstone;Rupert Brown

  • Effects of Direct and Indirect Cross-Group Friendships on Judgments of Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland: The Mediating Role of an Anxiety-Reduction Mechanism

    Stefania Paolini;Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci

  • Prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination: Theoretical and empirical overview

    J F Dovidio;M Hewstone;P Glick;V M Esses

  • Introduction to Social Psychology : A European Perspective

    Miles Hewstone;Wolfgang Stroebe;Goeffrey M. Stephenson

  • Introduction to Social Psychology

    M. Hewstone;W Stroebe

  • A test of the extended intergroup contact hypothesis: the mediating role of intergroup anxiety, perceived ingroup and outgroup norms, and inclusion of the outgroup in the self.

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci;Christiana Vonofakou

  • Intergroup Contact, Forgiveness, and Experience of “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland

    Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Alberto Voci;Juergen Hamberger

  • Multiple social categorization

    Richard J. Crisp;Miles Hewstone

  • PROCESSING LOAD AND MEMORY FOR STEREOTYPE-BASED INFORMATION

    C. Neil Macrae;Miles Hewstone;Riana J. Griffiths

  • Intergroup trust in Northern Ireland.

    Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Jared Kenworthy;Ed Cairns

  • European Review of Social Psychology: Stroebe/Social Psychology

    Wolfgang Stroebe;Miles Hewstone

  • The Social Psychologyof Intergroup Relations

    Nicole Tausch;Katharina Schmid;Miles Hewstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Alberto Voci
Alberto Voci University of Padua
Ed Cairns
Ed Cairns University of Ulster
Nicole Tausch
Nicole Tausch University of St Andrews
Robin Martin
Robin Martin University of Manchester
Wolfgang Stroebe
Wolfgang Stroebe University of Groningen
Richard J. Crisp
Richard J. Crisp Durham University
Rhiannon N. Turner
Rhiannon N. Turner Queen's University Belfast
Oliver Christ
Oliver Christ University of Hagen
Jake Harwood
Jake Harwood University of Arizona
Mark Rubin
Mark Rubin Durham University

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