Research areas
Nicole Tausch is a social psychologist broadly interested in intergroup relations and conflict, prejudice and discrimination, and social perception. She has in the past investigated the effects of cross-community contact in Northern Ireland and India, the importance of different types of threat in shaping intergroup attitudes, the role of cognitive and motivational factors in trait attribution (in particular the attribution of warmth and competence to other people and groups), and the effects of ideological orientation and cognitive preferences on stereotype maintenance.
Her current lines of research include (1) factors influencing willingness to participate in normative and non-normative political action, in particular injustice and efficacy appraisals and group-based emotions (anger and contempt), (2) psychological consequences of participating in normative and non-normative collective action, and (3) the potential counter-productive effects of intergroup contact in achieving social change towards group equality.
She was recently funded by the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council (jointly with Russell Spears at Cardiff University) to investigate the roles of social context, injustice appraisals and group-based emotions in predicting different forms of political participation and support for political violence.
PhD supervision
- Sunniva Davies-Rommetveit
- Gina Bode
Selected publications
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The Irony of Harmony: Intergroup Contact Can Produce False Expectations for Equality
Saguy, T., Tausch, N., Dovidio, J. F. & Pratto, F., Jan 2009, In: Psychological Science. 20, 1, p. 114-121 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Explaining Radical Group Behavior: Developing Emotion and Efficacy Routes to Normative and Nonnormative Collective Action
Tausch, N., Becker, J. C., Spears, R., Christ, O., Saab, R., Singh, P. & Siddiqui, R. N., Jul 2011, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 101, 1, p. 129-148 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Secondary transfer effects of intergroup contact: Alternative accounts and underlying processes
Tausch, N., Hewstone, M., Kenworthy, J. B., Psaltis, C., Schmid, K., Popan, J. R., Cairns, E. & Hughes, J., Aug 2010, In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 99, 2, p. 282-302 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review