Does ethnic diversity erode social trust? Continued immigration and corresponding growing
ethnic diversity have prompted this essential question for modern societies, but few clear …

This paper reviews research in place attachment and organizes the material into three
sections: research, method, and theory. A review of several hundred empirical and …

When migrants move from one country to another, they carry a new range of skills and
perspectives, which nurture technological innovation and stimulate economic growth. At the …

According to recent research, ethnoracial diversity negatively affects trust and social capital.
This article challenges the current conception and measurement of “diversity” and invites …

Research and theory on intergroup contact have become one of the fastest advancing and
most exciting fields in social psychology in recent years. The work is exciting because it …

We propose that intergroup contact provides an effective means by which to reduce, resolve,
and prevent conflict of all kinds, including violent conflict. We review the vast literature on the …

This chapter has two main objectives: to review influential ideas and findings in the literature
and to outline the organization and content of the volume. The first part of the chapter lays a …

We argue that residential exposure to ethnic diversity reduces social trust. Previous within-
country analyses of the relationship between contextual ethnic diversity and trust have been …

Psychology of Prejudice and Discrimination provides a comprehensive and compelling
overview of what psychological theory and research have to say about the nature, causes …

The concept of social capital is arguably the most successful “export” from sociology into the
public domain in recent years. Ironically, that feat was not accomplished by the major …