Recent advances in intergroup contact theory

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How do we get people into contact? Predictors of intergroup contact and drivers of contact seeking (2020, background): “By discussing various ways to bring individuals from different groups into contact, we explicitly address a shortcoming of previous work in the field anecdotally referred to as “the leading-thehorses-to-water problem” (Pettigrew et al., 2011, p. 278).”
How College Students Experience Intercultural Learning: Key Features and Approaches (2013, background): “In their review of studies of prejudice reduction, Pettigrew et al. (2011) reported that both positive and negative emotions serve as affective mediators and that an increase in empathy reduces prejudice.”
The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration (2017, background): “…to peaceful ethnic co-existence according to classical political science research: (1) motivations to fit in and contribute to society and (2) intergroup contact (e.g., Allport 1954; Brader, Valentino, and Suhay 2008; Pettigrew et al. 2011; Pettigrew and Tropp 2006; Sniderman and Hagendoorn 2007).”