Matt Lowe
Assistant professor at the Vancouver School of Economics and researcher on intergroup relations and political economy, affiliated with J-PAL and CIFAR, author of the review 'Has Intergroup Contact Delivered?'.
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Mar 11, 2026 • 23min
S7 Ep12: Can contact between groups reduce prejudice?
Matt Lowe, assistant professor at the Vancouver School of Economics and researcher on intergroup relations, reviews decades of research on bringing groups together. He explains how early findings were inflated by publication bias. He summarizes new pre-registered experiments showing real but much smaller effects of contact. He discusses policy implications, the role of study design, and what rigorous future tests should target.
