Periodic Reporting for period 1 - contactVIRT (Intergroup Contact in Virtual Reality: Comparative Effects of Two Contact Strategies on Reducing Prejudice and Increasing Trust Between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland)

Decades of research have corroborated the positive consequences of intergroup contact in different settings and with diverse groups (Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006). However, contact is less likely to occur in post-conflict contexts such as Northern Ireland, in which almost 94% of...