What is IGR?

IGR seeks to bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars engaged in empirical research on intergroup relations – including researchers from across subfields in political science and psychology – to provide detailed, actionable feedback on works in progress.

IGR is a “read-ahead” working group, meaning that selected presenters will circulate a research design, pre-analysis plan, or working paper a few weeks before the meeting. All attendees will be expected to read the selected materials in advance, and come prepared with comments. The meeting will be spent discussing each paper and providing feedback to authors. Please feel free to fill out this sign up survey, or reach out to IGR organizers if you are interested in joining our mailing list.

Upcoming Workshop

IGR 12 (March 24 15, 10:00-12:00pm EST)

• Nina McMurry, “ The Electoral Effects of Indigenous Polling Places in the Philippines.”
• Roni Porat (with Eran Halperin and Kinneret Endevelt), “ Zoom in : Institutional Signals on Zoom Increase Minority’s Achievements in Higher Education.” ( Appendix)

Future Workshops

TBD

Workshop Organizers

• Rebecca Littman -
• Alexandra Scacco -
• Chagai M. Weiss -
• Cara Wong -

Previous Workshops

IGR 11 (November 19, 12:00-02:00pm EST)

• Cydney Dupree, “ Words of a leader: The Importance of Intersectionality for Understanding the Use and Reception of Dominant Language by Female Leaders”
• Dan Hopkins, “ Which News Goes Viral? Measuring Identity Threats and Engagement with News Media Posts on Twitter and Facebook”

IGR 10 (October 15, 12:00-02:00pm EST)

• Aliza Luft, “ Moral Shifting: Social Perception, Dehumanization, and the Plasticity of Moral Judgments About Violence”
• Laura Paler, “ How Mediated Intergroup Contact Changes Prejudice and Politics: Evidence from a Married at First Sight Experiment”

IGR 9 (September 17, 12:00-02:00pm EST)

• Alice Xu, “ Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Collateral Cooperation for Public Goods in Cities”
• Danny Choi, “ Mobile Communication Technology and National Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa”

IGR 8 (June 25, 11:00am-01:00pm EST)

• Calvin Lai & Jaclyn Lisnek, “ The Impact of Implicit Bias-Oriented Diversity Training on Police Officers’ Beliefs, Motivations, and Actions”
• Cleo O’Brien-Udry, “ Aid, Blame, and Backlash: The Political Economy of Unpopular Aid”

IGR 7 (May 21, 11:00am-01:00pm EST)

• Rebecca Littman, Alexandra Scacco and coauthors, “ Reducing Intergroup Animosity in Nigeria through Entertainment Education Interventions”
• Omar Garcia Ponce, “ The Paradox of Migration: Assessing Mexican Beliefs about the Inmigrante”

IGR 6 (April 23, 11:00am-01:00pm EST)

• Biz Herman, “ Responses to Trauma: the Consequences of Conflict and Forced Migration on Social Stability”
• Amanda Robinson, “ The Political Implications of Ethnic Visibility”

IGR 5 (March 19, 11:00am-01:00pm EST)

• Hanna Szekeres, “ The Interplay of Perspective Taking Ability and Perspective Taking Intervention on Prejudice Reduction”
• James Druckman and Elizabeth Sharrow, “ How Inter-Group Contact Can Change Policy Views”

IGR 4 (February 19, 11:00am-01:00pm EST) RSVP Here

• Andrew Thompson, “ Clear and Present Danger? How Group Threat Shapes Salient Political Opinions and Perceptions”
• Mina Cikara, Vasiliki Fouka, and Marco Tabellini, “ Hate Crime Increases with Minoritized Rank”

IGR 3: November 13, 2020 (11:00am-01:00pm EST)

• David Broockman and Joshua Kalla, “ Which narratives durably reduce prejudice? Evidence from field and survey experiments”, Chair: Linda Tropp
• Julia Spielmann, Siqi Feng, Daniel A. Briley, and Chadly Stern, “ Mental Health Contributors Among Transgender People in a Non-WEIRD Society” Appendix, Chair: Claire Adida

IGR 2: October 9, 2020 (11:00am-01:00pm EST)

• Joel Martinez and Betsy Levy Paluck, “ Quantifying shared and idiosyncratic judgments of racism in social discourse” ( Appendix), Chair: Chagai Weiss
• Leah Rosenzweig and Yang-Yang Zhou, “ Team and Nation: Sports, Nationalism, and Attitudes toward Refugees”, Chair: Ruth Ditlmann

IGR 1: August 3, 2020 (10:00-03:15 EST)

• Welcome and Ground Rules (Chagai Weiss): 10-10:15 am (EST)
• Virtual Intergroup Contact: 10:15 - 11:45 am (EST)
  • Salma Mousa, “ Contact in the Classroom: Can Virtual Exchanges Build Tolerance?”, Chair: Rebecca Littman
  • Evan deFillipis and Josh Greene, “ Epistemic Cooperation: A Quiz-Game Intervention To Reduce Political Polarization”, Chair: Alex Scacco
• Break: 11:45 am-12:00 pm (EST)
• Research Design Session: 12:00 - 12:45 pm (EST)
  • Allison Harell and Evan Lieberman, “ Does Reporting Racial and Ethnic Disease Burdens Help or Hurt Government Responses?”, Chair: Chadly Stern
• Break: 12:45 - 1:15 pm (EST)
• Session 3: 1:15 - 2:45 pm
  • Sylvia Perry, Allison Skinner, Jamie Abaied, James Wages, and Adilene Osnaya, “ A laboratory procedure to facilitate conversations about race within White families in the U.S.”, Chair: Efren Perez
  • Ruth Ditlmann, Nejla Asimovic, & Cyrus Samii, “ Training Ambassadors for Peace: A Field Experiment on an Intergroup Contact Program in Israel”, Chair: Kimuli Kasara
• Future of IGR discussion (Cara Wong): 2:45-3:15 pm (EST)