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Overview

Nicole Tausch is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social and intergroup psychology, with particular attention to sociopolitical dynamics, cultural differences, and values.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Resistance in repressive contexts: A comprehensive test of psychological predictors," 2020, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "Intergroup contact is reliably associated with reduced prejudice, even in the face of group threat and discrimination," 2023, American Psychologist
  • "Dynamic, Yet Stable: Separating Within- and Between-Person Components of Collective Action in Support of a Disadvantaged Outgroup and its Antecedents," 2022, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "People or Ideology? Social Conservatism and Intergroup Contact Moderate Heterosexuals' Responses to a State-sponsored Anti-LGBT Campaign," 2022, Sexuality Research and Social Policy
  • "A post-Brexit intergroup contact intervention reduces affective polarization between Leavers and Remainers short-term," 2024, Communications Psychology

Tausch frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Paulina Górska
  • Arin H. Ayanian
  • Sidney Bode
  • Yasemin Gülsüm Acar
  • María Chayinska

Their work has been published repeatedly in specific academic journals, highlighting ongoing contributions to these fields:

  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • American Psychologist
  • Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • Sexuality Research and Social Policy
  • Communications Psychology

Nicole Tausch's research covers a range of social science subfields, predominantly sociology and political science, social psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. Additional areas include general health professions and management, monitoring, policy, and law.

The main topics addressed in their studies are:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

Best Publications

  • Explaining Radical Group Behavior: Developing Emotion and Efficacy Routes to Normative and Nonnormative Collective Action

    Nicole Tausch;Julia C. Becker;Russell Spears;Oliver Christ

  • The Irony of Harmony Intergroup Contact Can Produce False Expectations for Equality

    Tamar Saguy;Nicole Tausch;John F. Dovidio;Felicia Pratto

  • Contextual effect of positive intergroup contact on outgroup prejudice

    Oliver Christ;Oliver Christ;Katharina Schmid;Simon Lolliot;Hermann Swart

  • The Impact of Intergroup Emotions on Forgiveness in Northern Ireland

    Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Ed Cairns;Nicole Tausch

  • Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact: Alternative accounts and underlying processes.

    Nicole Tausch;Miles Hewstone;Jared B. Kenworthy;Charis Psaltis

  • A dynamic model of engagement in normative and non-normative collective action: Psychological antecedents, consequences, and barriers

    Julia C. Becker;Nicole Tausch

  • Direct Contact as a Moderator of Extended Contact Effects: Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Impact on Outgroup Attitudes, Behavioral Intentions, and Attitude Certainty:

    Oliver Christ;Miles Hewstone;Nicole Tausch;Ulrich Wagner

  • The functional nature of conspiracy beliefs: Examining the underpinnings of belief in the Da Vinci Code conspiracy

    Anna Kaisa Newheiser;Miguel Farias;Nicole Tausch

  • Antecedents and Consequences of Social Identity Complexity: Intergroup Contact, Distinctiveness Threat, and Outgroup Attitudes

    Katharina Schmid;Miles Hewstone;Nicole Tausch;Ed Cairns

  • Individual-level and group-level mediators of contact effects in Northern Ireland: the moderating role of social identification.

    Nicole Tausch;Tania Tam;Miles Hewstone;Jared Kenworthy

  • Acting in solidarity: Testing an extended dual pathway model of collective action by bystander group members

    Rim Saab;Nicole Tausch;Russell Spears;Wing-Yee Cheung

  • Cross-Community Contact, Perceived Status Differences, and Intergroup Attitudes in Northern Ireland: The Mediating Roles of Individual-level versus Group-level Threats and the Moderating Role of Social Identification

    Nicole Tausch;Miles Hewstone;Jared Kenworthy;Ed Cairns

  • Emotional Consequences of Collective Action Participation: Differentiating Self-Directed and Outgroup-Directed Emotions

    Julia C. Becker;Nicole Tausch;Ullrich Wagner

  • Emotional reactions to success and failure of collective action as predictors of future action intentions: a longitudinal investigation in the context of student protests in Germany.

    Nicole Tausch;Julia C. Becker

  • When Group Memberships are Negative: The Concept, Measurement, and Behavioral Implications of Psychological Disidentification

    Julia C. Becker;Nicole Tausch

  • The relationships between contact, status and prejudice: An integrated threat theory analysis of Hindu-Muslim relations in India

    Nicole Tausch;Miles Hewstone;Ravneeta Roy

  • Committed Dis(s)idents: Participation in Radical Collective Action Fosters Disidentification With the Broader In-Group But Enhances Political Identification

    Julia C. Becker;Nicole Tausch;Russell Spears;Oliver Christ

  • Stepping stones to reconciliation in Northern Ireland: Intergroup contact, forgiveness and trust

    Miles Hewstone;Jared B. Kenworthy;Ed Cairns;Nicole Tausch

  • How Does Intergroup Contact Affect Social Change? Its Impact on Collective Action and Individual Mobility Intentions among Members of a Disadvantaged Group

    Nicole Tausch;Tamar Saguy;Jeff Bryson

  • How risk perception shapes collective action intentions in repressive contexts: A study of Egyptian activists during the 2013 post-coup uprising.

    Arin H. Ayanian;Nicole Tausch

  • The Social Psychologyof Intergroup Relations

    Nicole Tausch;Katharina Schmid;Miles Hewstone

Frequent Co-Authors

Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Russell Spears
Russell Spears University of Groningen
Ed Cairns
Ed Cairns University of Ulster
Oliver Christ
Oliver Christ University of Hagen
Alberto Voci
Alberto Voci University of Padua
John F. Dovidio
John F. Dovidio Yale University
Rhiannon N. Turner
Rhiannon N. Turner Queen's University Belfast
Jake Harwood
Jake Harwood University of Arizona
Tamar Saguy
Tamar Saguy Reichman University
Martijn van Zomeren
Martijn van Zomeren University of Groningen

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