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Contested symbols as social representations: The case of Cyprus
(Springer International Publishing, 2014)
This chapter examines symbols as social representations and specifically focuses on the ways that symbolic meanings of cultural artifacts relating to intergroup conflict vary as a function of the quality of social relations ...
Intergroup Contact and the Mediating Role of Intergroup Trust on Outgroup Evaluation and Future Contact Intentions in Cyprus and Northern Ireland
(Educational Publishing Foundation, 2017)
It is well supported that intergroup contact reduces prejudice and that positive contact can increase trust and improve attitudes between groups in conflict. In segregated societies, however, contact is often difficult or ...
Collective memory, social representations of intercommunal relations, and conflict transformation in divided Cyprus
(2016)
The paper discusses the main findings of a line of research that explored the social representations of the Cyprus issue and its history as well as intercommunal relations by Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots in the ...