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Rhiannon N. Turner is affiliated with Queen's University Belfast in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily encompasses the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a strong focus on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Gender Studies, Clinical Psychology, and Safety Research.

The main topics addressed by Turner's work include Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Social Media and Politics, Health Disparities and Outcomes, Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction, as well as Racial and Ethnic Identity Research.

Turner has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Journal of Applied Social Psychology
  • Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • Journal of Social Issues
  • Social and Personality Psychology Compass
  • European Journal of Social Psychology

They have collaborated with several co-authors multiple times. Notable frequent collaborators are:

  • Ángel Gómez
  • Paul A. M. Van Lange
  • Maja Becker
  • Giulio Costantini
  • Ģirts Dimdiņš

Among the recent papers authored by Turner are:

  • Reducing Prejudice and Discrimination, 2020, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology
  • The role of individual differences in understanding and enhancing intergroup contact, 2020, Social and Personality Psychology Compass

Turner's coauthored works also include influential contributions such as:

  • Intergroup contact research in the 21st century: Lessons learned and forward progress if we remain open, 2021, Journal of Social Issues
  • Intimate intergroup contact across the lifespan, 2020, Journal of Social Issues
  • Multinational data show that conspiracy beliefs are associated with the perception (and reality) of poor national economic performance, 2022, European Journal of Social Psychology

Best Publications

  • Can imagined interactions produce positive perceptions? Reducing prejudice through simulated social contact.

    Richard J. Crisp;Rhiannon N. Turner

  • 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

  • Reducing implicit racial preferences: I. A comparative investigation of 17 interventions.

    Calvin K. Lai;Maddalena Marini;Steven A. Lehr;Carlo Cerruti

  • Imagining Intergroup Contact Can Improve Intergroup Attitudes

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Richard J. Crisp;Emily Lambert

  • 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

  • Cognitive adaptation to the experience of social and cultural diversity.

    Richard J. Crisp;Rhiannon N. Turner

  • Imagining intergroup contact reduces implicit prejudice

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Richard J. Crisp

  • Essential Social Psychology

    Richard J. Crisp;Rhiannon N. Turner

  • Reducing prejudice via direct and extended cross-group friendship.

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci;Stefania Paolini

  • Imagined Intergroup Contact: Theory, Paradigm and Practice

    Richard J. Crisp;Sofia Stathi;Rhiannon N. Turner;Senel Husnu

  • Intergroup Contact: When Does it Work, and Why?

    Jared B. Kenworthy;Rhiannon N. Turner;Miles Hewstone;Alberto Voci

  • Confidence in Contact: A New Perspective on Promoting Cross-Group Friendship Among Children and Adolescents

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Lindsey Cameron

  • Out-group trust, intergroup anxiety, and out-group attitude as mediators of the effect of imagined intergroup contact on intergroup behavioral tendencies

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Keon West;Zara Christie

  • The Imagined Contact Hypothesis

    Richard J. Crisp;Richard J. Crisp;Rhiannon N. Turner

  • From imagery to intention:A dual route model of imagined contact effects

    Richard J. Crisp;Senel Husnu;Rose Meleady;Sofia Stathi

  • Seeing Red or Feeling Blue: Differentiated Intergroup Emotions and Ingroup Identification in Soccer Fans

    Richard J. Crisp;Sarah Heuston;Matthew J. Farr;Rhiannon N. Turner

  • Best friends and better coping: Facilitating psychological resilience through boys' and girls' closest friendships.

    Rebecca Graber;Rhiannon Turner;Anna Madill

  • Dropping the weight stigma: nostalgia improves attitudes toward persons who are overweight

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Tim Wildschut;Constantine Sedikides

  • Behavioural consequences of imagining intergroup contact with stigmatized outgroups

    Rhiannon N. Turner;Keon West

  • Changing attitudes with a little imagination’: Imagined contact effects on young children’s intergroup bias.

    Lindsey Cameron;Adam Rutland;Rhiannon N. Turner;Rosie Holman-Nicolas

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard J. Crisp
Richard J. Crisp Durham University
Miles Hewstone
Miles Hewstone University of Oxford
Alberto Voci
Alberto Voci University of Padua
Gordon Hodson
Gordon Hodson Brock University
Tim Wildschut
Tim Wildschut University of Southampton
Constantine Sedikides
Constantine Sedikides University of Southampton
Nicole Tausch
Nicole Tausch University of St Andrews
Kristof Dhont
Kristof Dhont University of Kent
Mark Conner
Mark Conner University of Leeds
Ed Cairns
Ed Cairns University of Ulster

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