Sumedh Rao
@sumedhrao.bsky.social
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Post Doctoral Researcher at the Open University. Intergroup relations, conflict, and governance. Formerly University of Oxford, University of Birmingham, ODI, OECD and DFID.
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Sumedh Rao's talk is a discursive study of Popery and Prejudice in the context of Anti-Catholicism in England and Wales from 1940-1955 🧵6/7
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Just arrived and looking forward to presenting some initial findings from our @openuniversity.bsky.social project bringing history and psychology together. Join if you're free!
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Thus ends another #ISPP2025. As usual, a great conference - really interesting work and wonderful people. Thanks to the organisers and thanks to my fellow session panel @mjbalezina.bsky.social, Melissa Vega and Anna Wlodarczyk. See you next year in Newcastle!
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#postdoc in #peace #science at @ucddublin.bsky.social

Work with me on GENERATION PEACE to develop a #global #youth #peacebuilding indictor

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Delighted to have made it to this year's #ISPP2025 and to present this paper from our Shared Spaces project authored with @shelleymckeown.bsky.social and @pierlucdupont.bsky.social
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📣 Submissions are now open for The British Psychological Society Social Psychology Section annual conference taking place at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 8-10 September 2025. Come join us!
Submission deadline 23rd April 2025. www.bps.org.uk/event/social...
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b) tackling different forms of contact such extended contact, close friendships, and secondary transfer effects, and c) testing for longitudinal effects. We discuss these findings in light of other recent advancements within the larger framework of intergroup contact research.
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Finally, we investigated variations of our hypothesized path models in several intergroup contexts across 6 countries and 21 studies (total N = 12,859), a) looking at interethnic and interreligious contact among advantaged and disadvantaged groups...
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Secondly, we included both positive and negative forms of intergroup contact in the majority of the studies we report.
Thirdly, we introduced outgroup respect and understanding as novel emotional mediators of contact effects.
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In this paper, led by Berfin Acar, we expand the work on intergroup contact. First, we examined whether contact experiences also related to social change indicators beyond prejudice, namely, attitudes towards personal and general mixing.
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🚨New Publication🚨

Intergroup contact does more than reduce prejudice. Positive outgroup experiences relate to positive pro-mixing attitudes, via increased levels of outgroup respect and outgroup understanding. We looked at inter/ethnoreligious contexts.

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to mixing: Testing novel emotional mediators of intergroup contact effects
Although numerous studies have documented the robust effect of positive intergroup contact experiences in reducing prejudice and improving positive at…
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Thanks for this. Can I request an add too?
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Great feedback on my blitz talk on the Bradford study from our Shared Spaces project @bpsofficial.bsky.social Social Psych conference #AcademicSky
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Thrilled to say I'll be continuing work on the Shared Spaces Project with Prof Shelley McKeown Jones (@shelleymckeown.bsky.social) and Dr Daniel Schaefer at the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford.
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I am delighted to say that I am joining the University of Bristol as Research Associate, working on the ESRC Shared Spaces project. Led by @shelleymckeown.bsky.social, this project looks at the how, when, and why of adolescent intergroup interactions (sharedspacesproject.co.uk). Exciting times!