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Stephen C. Wright

Stephen C. Wright

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
12838
World Ranking
8056
National Ranking
544

Overview

Stephen C. Wright is affiliated with Simon Fraser University in Canada and has produced work primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology. Their research explores various subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, Physiology, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, and Speech and Hearing.

The scientist's main topics of study encompass Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Voice and Speech Disorders, Racial and Ethnic Identity Research, Dysphagia Assessment and Management, Respiratory and Cough-Related Research, and Social Power and Status Dynamics.

Frequent publication venues for Wright include The Laryngoscope and Journal of Voice, each with three publications, as well as Nature Human Behaviour and Political Psychology, each with two publications. Other outlets of publication activity include Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Their research collaborations feature repeated coauthorship with:

  • Lyndsay L. Madden (6 publications)
  • Johannes Ullrich (4 publications)
  • Nurit Shnabel (4 publications)
  • Dominic Abrams (4 publications)
  • Lisa Droogendyk (4 publications)

Notable recent papers authored by or involving Wright include:

  • "Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups," 2020, Personality and Social Psychology Review
  • "A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change," 2020, Nature Human Behaviour
  • "Mentioning the Sample's Country in the Article's Title Leads to Bias in Research Evaluation," 2021, Social Psychological and Personality Science
  • "Need satisfaction in intergroup contact: A multinational study of pathways toward social change," 2021, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • "The More You Know": Critical Historical Knowledge About Indian Residential Schools Increases Non-Indigenous Canadians' Empathy for Indigenous Peoples," 2021, Political Psychology

Best Publications

  • The extended contact effect: Knowledge of cross-group friendships and prejudice.

    Stephen C. Wright;Arthur Aron;Tracy McLaughlin-Volpe;Stacy A. Ropp

  • Responding to membership in a disadvantaged group : from acceptance to collective protest

    Stephen C. Wright;Donald M. Taylor;Fathali M. Moghaddam

  • Cross-Group Friendships and Intergroup Attitudes A Meta-Analytic Review

    Kristin Davies;Linda R. Tropp;Arthur Aron;Thomas F. Pettigrew

  • Ingroup Identification as the Inclusion of Ingroup in the Self

    Linda R. Tropp;Stephen C. Wright

  • The Personal/Group Discrimination Discrepancy Perceiving My Group, but not Myself, to be a Target for Discrimination

    Donald M. Taylor;Stephen C. Wright;Fathali M. Moghaddam;Richard N. Lalonde

  • Yet another dark side of chivalry: Benevolent sexism undermines and hostile sexism motivates collective action for social change.

    Julia C. Becker;Stephen C. Wright

  • Including others in the self

    Arthur Aron;Tracy McLaughlin-Volpe;Debra Mashek;Gary Lewandowski

  • Social Psychology in Cross-Cultural Perspective

    Fathali M. Moghaddam;Donald M. Taylor;Stephen C. Wright

  • Vicarious intergroup contact effects: Applying social-cognitive theory to intergroup contact research.

    Agostino Mazziotta;Amélie Mummendey;Stephen C. Wright

  • The struggle for social equality: Collective action versus prejudice reduction.

    Stephen C. Wright;Micah E. Lubensky

  • Beyond Allyship: Motivations for Advantaged Group Members to Engage in Action for Disadvantaged Groups:

    Helena R M Radke;Maja Kutlaca;Maja Kutlaca;Birte Siem;Stephen C Wright

  • The next generation of collective action research.

    Stephen C. Wright

  • Acting in Solidarity: Cross‐Group Contact between Disadvantaged Group Members and Advantaged Group Allies

    Lisa Droogendyk;Stephen C. Wright;Micah Lubensky;Winnifred R. Louis

  • Strategic Collective Action: Social Psychology and Social Change

    Stephen C. Wright

  • Friend or Ally Whether Cross-Group Contact Undermines Collective Action Depends on What Advantaged Group Members Say (or Don’t Say)

    Julia C. Becker;Stephen C. Wright;Micah E. Lubensky;Shelly Zhou

  • Collective action in response to disadvantage: Intergroup perceptions, social identification, and social change.

    Stephen C. Wright;Linda R. Tropp

  • Ingroup identification and relative deprivation : an examination across multiple social comparisons

    Linda R. Tropp;Stephen C. Wright

  • Identity and the language of the classroom: Investigating the impact of heritage versus second language instruction on personal and collective self-esteem.

    Stephen C. Wright;Donald M. Taylor

  • A large-scale test of the link between intergroup contact and support for social change.

    Tabea Hässler;Johannes Ullrich;Michelle Bernardino;Nurit Shnabel

  • Subtractive Bilingualism and the Survival of the Inuit Language: Heritage- Versus Second-Language Education

    Stephen C. Wright;Donald M. Taylor;Judy Macarthur

  • Ambiguity, Social Influence, and Collective Action: Generating Collective Protest in Response to Tokenism

    Stephen C. Wright

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald M. Taylor
Donald M. Taylor McGill University
Linda R. Tropp
Linda R. Tropp University of Massachusetts Amherst
Arthur Aron
Arthur Aron Stony Brook University
Dominic Abrams
Dominic Abrams University of Kent
Winnifred R. Louis
Winnifred R. Louis University of Queensland
Michał Bilewicz
Michał Bilewicz University of Warsaw
Roberto Baiocco
Roberto Baiocco Sapienza University of Rome
Sabine Otten
Sabine Otten University of Groningen
Thomas F. Pettigrew
Thomas F. Pettigrew University of California, Santa Cruz

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