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Overview

Walter G. Stephan is affiliated with New Mexico State University in the United States. Their research focus is positioned within the Social Sciences, with particular attention to Sociology and Political Science as a subfield.

The scientist's work primarily engages with topics related to Social and Intergroup Psychology. This area covers the study of social behavior, group dynamics, and the interaction between different social groups.

Collaboration is a part of their research approach, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Cookie White Stephan
  • Marina Abalakina
  • Vladimir Ageyev
  • Amalio Blanco
  • Michael Bond

Best Publications

  • The role of empathy in improving intergroup relations.

    Walter G. Stephan;Krystina Finlay

  • Prejudice toward immigrants

    Walter G. Stephan;Oscar Ybarra;Guy Bachman

  • Diversity within Unity: Essential Principles for Teaching and Learning in a Multicultural Society:

    James A. Banks;Peter Cookson;Willis D. Hawley

  • The Role of Threats in the Racial Attitudes of Blacks and Whites

    Walter G. Stephan;Kurt A. Boniecki;Oscar Ybarra;Ann Bettencourt

  • The Role of Threat in Intergroup Relations

    Walter G. Stephan;C. Lausanne Renfro;Mark D. Davis

  • Prejudice toward Immigrants to Spain and Israel: An Integrated Threat Theory Analysis

    Walter G. Stephan;Oscar Ybarra;Carmen Martnez Martnez;Joseph Schwarzwald

  • Beliefs in Conspiracies

    Marina Abalakina-Paap;Walter G. Stephan;Traci Craig;W. Larry Gregory

  • The effects of feeling threatened on attitudes toward immigrants.

    Walter G. Stephan;C. Lausanne Renfro;Victoria M. Esses;Cookie White Stephan

  • Intergroup Contact: Introduction

    Walter G. Stephan;John C. Brigham

  • Integrated Threat Theory and Intercultural Attitudes Mexico and the United States

    Walter G. Stephan;Rolando Diaz-Loving;Anne Duran

  • Improving Intergroup Relations

    Walter G. Stephan;Cookie White Stephan

  • Intergroup Anxiety: Theory, Research, and Practice

    Walter G. Stephan

  • Improving Intergroup Relations: The Effects of Empathy on Racial Attitudes1

    Krystina A. Finlay;Walter G. Stephan

  • The contact hypothesis in intergroup relations.

    Walter G. Stephan

  • School Desegregation: An Evaluation of Predictions Made in Brown v. Board of Education.

    Walter G. Stephan

  • Anxiety in intergroup relations: a comparison of anxiety/uncertainty management theory and integrated threat theory

    Walter G Stephan;Cookie White Stephan;William B Gudykunst

  • Egotism and attribution.

    Melvin L. Snyder;Walter G. Stephan;David Rosenfield

  • The Role of Ignorance in Intergroup Relations

    Walter G. Stephan;Cookie White Stephan

  • Intergroup Threat Theory

    Walter G. Stephan;Oscar Ybarra;Kimberly Rios

  • Preferred Styles of Conflict Resolution: Mexico and the United States

    Cristina Gabrielidis;Walter G. Stephan;Oscar Ybarra;Virginia M. Dos Santos Pearson

  • Intergroup Threat Theory

    Walter G. Stephan;Cookie White Stephan

Frequent Co-Authors

David Rosenfield
David Rosenfield Southern Methodist University
Oscar Ybarra
Oscar Ybarra University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Peter M. Gollwitzer
Peter M. Gollwitzer New York University
Ellen Berscheid
Ellen Berscheid University of Minnesota
Charles S. Carver
Charles S. Carver University of Miami
Stephen J. Read
Stephen J. Read University of Southern California
Linda A. Jackson
Linda A. Jackson Michigan State University
Elaine Walster
Elaine Walster University of Wisconsin–Madison
John Duckitt
John Duckitt University of Auckland
Karen A. Matthews
Karen A. Matthews University of Pittsburgh

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