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False security or greater social inclusion? Exploring perceptions of CCTV use in public and private spaces accessed by the homeless.

The finer points of lying online: e-mail versus pen and paper.

Politeness and psychological distance: a construal level perspective.

Evaluating the effectiveness of a consumer delivered anti-stigma program: replication with graduate-level helping professionals.

Development and validation of a measure of interpersonal strengths: The Inventory of Interpersonal Strengths.

Attitudes to people with mental disorders: a mental health literacy survey in a rural area of Maharashtra, India.

Why do they become vulnerable when faced with the challenges of old age? Elderly people who committed suicide, described by those who knew them.

["Schizophrenia has many faces" - evaluation of the Austrian Anti-Stigma-Campaign 2000-2002]

[Between emotional engagement and professional distance. The kangaroos are Germany's first KTQ certified pediatric nursing care].

'I hope we won't have to understand racism one day': researching or reproducing 'race' in social psychological research?

Rejected! Cognitions of rejection and intergroup anxiety as mediators of the impact of cross-group friendships on prejudice.

Social categorization and empathy for outgroup members.

Caring: building a 'psychological disposition' in pre-closing sequences in phone calls with a young adult with a learning disability.

Involuntary interpretation of social cues is compromised in autism spectrum disorders.

[Renal transplanted adolescents' perception of the relationship to the interdisciplinary health care team]

Distance-dependent processing of pictures and words.

Are cultural characteristics associated with the relationship between self and others' ratings of leadership?

[Perceived stigma at the end of hospitalization and mentally ill subjects' social reinsertion]

Combining education and video-based contact to reduce stigma of mental illness: The Same or Not the Same anti-stigma program for secondary schools in Hong Kong.

Does contact reduce prejudice or does prejudice reduce contact? A longitudinal test of the contact hypothesis among majority and minority groups in three European countries.