Items where Author is "Birtel, Michèle D."

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affect Affective factors affective polarization agreeableness alexithymia Anxiety Behaviour change breastfeeding Brexit bullying causal attributions Charity children collective action and social change Community Contact Covid-19 cultural differences Culture depression disasters distress EDA emotion empathic concern empathy engagement Eritrean ethnic diversity ethnicity extended contact extraversion fading affect bias gender generalization generalized prejudice health interventions health promotion health psychology Identity Imagery imagined contact Immigrants inclusion of other in self Indirect contact inequalities infant feeding Institutional Stigma Integration intercultural relations Intergroup anxiety intergroup contact Intergroup dynamics intergroup emotions intergroup empathy intergroup relations Internalised Stigma intervention mapping Labels longitudinal data memory mental health Mental imagery mental imagery drawing Meta-analysis Mindfulness meditation moral norms morality nature nature-based interventions Non-Statutory openness to experience optimal contact conditions ostracism outgroup respect pain perception post-university transition prejudice prejudice reduction pre‐school children psychosis Psychotherapy PTSD Public Stigma qualitative qualitative methods qualitative research real-time measures resilience secondary transfer effect Simulation social exclusion social identity social media social policy support societal norms South Asians squeeze interaction stereotypes stigma subjective norms systematic review Tolerance well-being wellbeing women

Number of items: 151.

affect

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio and Vezzali, Loris (2021) Fading affect bias in intergroup relations: The role of intergroup contact in fading outgroup affect. Social Psychology, 52 (4). pp. 203-214. ISSN 1864-9335 (Print), 2151-2590 (Online) (doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000449)

Affective factors

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Vezzali, Loris and Stathi, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-5239 (2018) Extended contact and affective factors: A review and suggestions for future research. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 25 (2). pp. 213-238. ISSN 1972-6325 (doi:10.4473/TPM25.2.4)

affective polarization

Tausch, Nicole, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Górska, Paulina, Bode, Sidney and Rocha, Carolina (2024) A post-Brexit intergroup contact intervention reduces affective polarization between Leavers and Remainers short-term. Communications Psychology, 2:95. ISSN 2731-9121 (Online) (doi:10.1038/s44271-024-00146-w)

agreeableness

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio, Vezzali, Loris, Turner, Rhiannon N., Crisp, Richard J. and Martin, Robin (2024) Dispositional empathy and personality as predictors of contact quality: the mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 102:101986. ISSN 0147-1767 (Print), 1873-7552 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.ijintrel.2024.101986)

alexithymia

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio, Hobson, Hannah, Collins-Quirk, Ashleigh and Vezzali, Loris (2023) Avoiding affect in intergroup relations: the roles of dispositional and intergroup empathy in the relationship between alexithymia and prejudice. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. ISSN 0021-9029 (Print), 1559-1816 (Online) (doi:10.1111/jasp.13015)

Anxiety

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Crisp, Richard J. (2015) Psychotherapy and social change: Utilizing principles of cognitive-behavioral therapy to help develop new prejudice-reduction interventions. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1771. ISSN 1664-1078 (Online) (doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01771)

Behaviour change

Crisp, Richard J. and Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 (2014) Reducing prejudice through mental imagery: Notes on replication, interpretation, and generalization. Psychological Science, 25 (3). pp. 840-841. ISSN 0956-7976 (Print), 1467-9280 (Online) (doi:10.1177/0956797613520169)

breastfeeding

Russell, Pascale Sophie, Smith, Debbie M., Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Hart, Kathryn H. and Golding, Sarah E. (2021) The role of emotions and injunctive norms in breastfeeding: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Health Psychology Review, 16 (2). pp. 257-279. ISSN 1743-7199 (Print), 1743-7202 (Online) (doi:10.1080/17437199.2021.1893783)

Brexit

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Tausch, Nicole (2025) Brexit and wellbeing: strained intergroup relations and positive intergroup contact predict wellbeing of Remainers and Leavers post Brexit. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. ISSN 0021-9029 (Print), 1559-1816 (Online) (doi:10.1111/jasp.70041)

bullying

Vezzali, Loris, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio, Stathi, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-5239, Crisp, Richard John, Cadamuro, Alessia and Visintin, Emilio Paolo (2019) Don’t hurt my outgroup friend: A multifaceted form of imagined contact promotes intentions to counteract bullying. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 23 (5). pp. 643-663. ISSN 1368-4302 (Print), 1461-7188 (Online) (doi:10.1177/1368430219852404)

causal attributions

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Mitchell, Briana L. (2022) Cross-cultural differences in depression between white British and South Asians: causal attributions, stigma by association, discriminatory potential. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 96 (1). pp. 101-116. ISSN 2044-8341 (Online) (doi:10.1111/papt.12428)

Charity

Huggett, Charlotte, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Awenat, Yvonne F., Fleming, Paul, Wilkes, Sophie, Williams, Shirley and Haddock, Gillian (2018) A qualitative study: experiences of stigma by people with mental health problems. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 91 (3). ISSN 2044-8341 (Online) (doi:10.1111/papt.12167)

children

Cadamuro, Alessia, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio, Crapolicchio, Eleonora, Vezzali, Loris and Drury, John (2021) Resilience in children in the aftermath of disasters: a systematic review and a new perspective on individual, interpersonal, group, and intergroup level factors. Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology, 31 (3). pp. 259-275. ISSN 1052-9284 (Print), 1099-1298 (Online) (doi:10.1002/casp.2500)

collective action and social change

Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio, Vezzali, Loris, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Stathi, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-5239, Ferrari, Barbara, Giovannini, Dino and Pettigrew, Thomas F. (2021) The role of optimal conditions and intergroup contact in promoting positive intergroup relations in and out of the workplace: A study with ethnic majority and minority workers. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 25 (6). pp. 1516-1533. ISSN 1368-4302 (Print), 1461-7188 (Online) (doi:10.1177/13684302211010929)

Community

Contact

Crisp, Richard J., Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Meleady, Rose (2011) Mental simulations of social thought and action. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 20 (4). pp. 261-264. ISSN 0963-7214 (Print), 1467-8721 (Online) (doi:10.1177/0963721411413762)

Covid-19

Wallace, Deborah, Newton, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8525-6763, Mccrone, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7001-4502 and Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 (2025) A narrative review into gendered ethnic mental health inequalities before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Educational & Child Psychology, 42 (2). pp. 83-101. ISSN 0267-1611 (Print), 2396-8702 (Online) (doi:10.53841/bpsecp.2025.42.2.83)

cultural differences

Ahmed, Sehar, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Pyle, Melissa and Morrison, Anthony P. (2019) Stigma towards psychosis: cross-cultural differences in prejudice, stereotypes and discrimination in White British and South Asians. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 30 (2). pp. 199-213. ISSN 1052-9284 (Print), 1099-1298 (Online) (doi:10.1002/casp.2437)

Culture

Ali, Safa, Ogden, Jane and Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 (2017) Building a dual identity as an immigrant in the UK: Eritreans’ search for freedom and a sense of balance. Ethnic and Racial Studies. pp. 1-18. ISSN 0141-9870 (Print), 1466-4356 (Online) (doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1384555)

depression

disasters

distress

EDA

Zhang, Ju ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3655-4010, Ma, Fang ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5476-6982, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Pan, Xueni ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1282-1469 and Farmer, Harry ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3684-0605 (2025) Squeeze the pain away: using a wireless ball to measure efforts to reduce other’s pain expressions in VR. In: CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, United States, pp. 1-10. ISBN 979-8400713958 (doi:10.1145/3706599.3720164)

emotion

empathic concern

empathy

engagement

Eritrean

ethnic diversity

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Reimer, Nils, Wölfer, Ralf and Hewstone, Miles (2019) Change in school ethnic diversity and intergroup relations: The transition from segregated elementary to mixed secondary school for majority and minority students. European Journal of Social Psychology, 50 (1). pp. 160-176. ISSN 0046-2772 (Print), 1099-0992 (Online) (doi:10.1002/ejsp.2609)

ethnicity

extended contact

Vezzali, Loris, Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Stathi, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-5239 and Brambilla, Marco (2019) Outgroup morality perceptions mediate secondary transfer effects from direct and extended contact: Evidence from majority and minority members. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 23 (7). pp. 1066-1084. ISSN 1368-4302 (Print), 1461-7188 (Online) (doi:10.1177/1368430219879223)

extraversion

fading affect bias

gender

generalization

generalized prejudice

health interventions

Schnepf, Julia and Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 (2026) Integrating qualitative methods within intervention mapping: a practical guide for planning, implementation, and evaluation. The European Health Psychologist (EHP). (In Press)

health promotion

health psychology

Gültzow, Thomas, Yilmaz, Nida Gizem, Benvenuti, Martina, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Dolinšek, Špela, Green, James, Gugushvili, Nino, Mo, Jiajun, Oldeman, Marie Geertrude, Qin, Kaiyang, Ramsey, Keenan A., Scholz, Christin and Smit, Eline Suzanne (2026) Health psychology in the age of social media: pointers for future research. The European Health Psychologist (EHP). (In Press)

Identity

Imagery

imagined contact

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197, Di Bernardo, Gian Antonio, Stathi, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-5239, Crisp, Richard J., Cadamuro, Alessia and Vezzali, Loris (2019) Imagining contact reduces prejudice in pre-school children. Social Development, 28 (4). pp. 1054-1073. ISSN 0961-205X (Print), 1467-9507 (Online) (doi:10.1111/sode.12374)

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Crisp, Richard J. (2012) "Treating" prejudice: An exposure-therapy approach to reducing negative reactions toward stigmatized groups. Psychological Science, 23 (11). pp. 1379-1386. ISSN 0956-7976 (Print), 1467-9280 (Online) (doi:10.1177/0956797612443838)

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Crisp, Richard J. (2012) Imagining intergroup contact is more cognitively difficult for people higher in intergroup anxiety but this does not detract from its effectiveness. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 15 (6). pp. 744-761. ISSN 1368-4302 (Print), 1461-7188 (Online) (doi:10.1177/1368430212443867)

Immigrants

inclusion of other in self

Indirect contact

inequalities

infant feeding

Institutional Stigma

Integration

intercultural relations

Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 (2024) Chapter 10. Intergroup and intercultural relations. In: Paolini, Stefania, Turner, Rhiannon N., Vasiljevic, Milica and Crisp, Richard J., (eds.) Social Psychology Foundations, Advances and Applications. SAGE, London; California; New Delhi; Singapore, pp. 477-536. ISBN 978-526428141; 978-1526428134

Intergroup anxiety

Parks, Stefania, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Crisp, Richard J. (2014) Evidence that a brief meditation exercise can reduce prejudice toward homeless people. Social Psychology, 45 (6). pp. 458-465. ISSN 1864-9335 (Print), 2151-2590 (Online) (doi:10.1027/1864-9335/a000212)

intergroup contact

Intergroup dynamics

intergroup emotions

intergroup empathy

intergroup relations

Stathi, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-5239, Turner, Rhiannon N., West, Keon and Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 (2012) Using mental imagery to promote positive intergroup relations. In: Russell, Dale W. and Russell, Cristel Antonia, (eds.) The psychology of prejudice: Interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary issues. Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY, pp. 235-250. ISBN 978-1620816066

Internalised Stigma

intervention mapping

Labels

longitudinal data

memory

mental health

Heinen-Stach, Darlene, Herbold, Erika, Hendricks, Carla L., Zuch, Niklas, Rapp, Michael A., Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Tschorn, Mira (2026) The effectiveness of nature-based interventions on mental health: a systematic review. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being. ISSN 1758-0846 (Print), 1758-0854 (Online) (In Press)

Mental imagery

mental imagery drawing

Meta-analysis

Mindfulness meditation

moral norms

morality

nature

nature-based interventions

Non-Statutory

openness to experience

optimal contact conditions

ostracism

Vikamsey, Devanshi, Amer, Amena ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4634-1789, Birtel, Michèle D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2383-9197 and Robinson, Oliver ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6758-2223 (2026) Ostracism and wellbeing in the narratives of the transition from university to work among ethnically diverse UK graduates. Journal of Adult Development. ISSN 1068-0667 (Print), 1573-3440 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s10804-026-09556-y)