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Shelley McKeown Jones
@shelleymckeown.bsky.social
Professor of Social Psychology | Co-Editor BJSP | Research on intergroup relations, peace, and conflict | From Northern Ireland
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Finally, Chloe Bracegirdle from @ox.ac.uk ‬ looks at ethnically segregated social networks in UK schools.

🔹82% of bullying ties were same-ethnic

🔹18% were cross-ethnic
June 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Stefania Paolini from @durhampsych.bsky.social explains work showing that positive intergroup contact improves social cohesion, but the disproportionate effect of negative contact is larger when people feel able to self-select out of contact situations.
June 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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@aaronltbh.bsky.social ‬ from @westernsydneyu.bsky.social‬ describes how GPS-based movement patterns may reveal who seeks or avoids outgroup spaces in Greater Sydney.
June 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Jack Klein discusses identity-fusion - a powerful form of group alignment that can motivate extreme pro-group behaviour.
June 22, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Helen Neville discusses the different processes of peacebuilding for White people and People of Colour within systems of oppression.

#SocialPsyc ConflictSky #AcademicSky
June 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Aishath Nasheeda introduces life skills education in the Maldives.
June 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Alex O’Donnell discusses positive intergroup contact and youth development. For more see: issr.uq.edu.au/profile/4885...
June 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Patrick Kotzur from @durhampsych.bsky.social presents longitudinal data showing intergroup “contact does its magic across the board,” including target outgroups (primary transfer effect), other outgroups (secondary transfer effect), and cognition more broadly (tertiary transfer effect).
June 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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If you know potential PhD candidates who'd be interested, please link them to Studentships currently advertised on our ERC ID-Compression project (one social psychology; one applied maths/computational social science): @markrubin.bsky.social @shelleymckeown.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mike...
We're offering two funded PhD studentships in the ERC-Funded ID-Compression project at the University of Limerick, Ireland -- please pass on to any kind, curious & talented candidates who might be interested. Thank you! @csi-research.bsky.social
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/svvz1...
June 11, 2025 at 11:06 AM
It was great to work on this one together.
June 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM