Peer-Reviewed Articles

Many studies investigated relations between intergroup contact and intergroup attitudes. Yet, additive and multiplicative effects of contact are less researched. We explored the additive effects of four types of indirect contact and whether effects of indirect contact are affected by direct contact.

In this article, substantiated by a meta-analysis of 154 studies published between 1960 and 2022, we show that the literature on mass–elite congruence has increased exponentially in the past decade.

The Indo-Pacific region is a laboratory of foreign policy signalling in a multipolar world. The special issue edited by Plagemann and Kahn explores major external powers' as well as Indo-Pacific countries' foreign policy often ambiguous communciation through words and actions amidst an intensifying US-China rivalry.

This mixed methods paper developed and tested hypotheses on changeable determinants of contact preferences informed by data from Togo and Sierra Leone. Inclusive ideas and knowledge of outgroup practices were associated with weaker, and exclusive ideas with stronger, preferences for similar others.