S M Yasir Arafat, Araz Ramazan Ahmad, Hersh Rasool Murad, Hardawan Mahmoud Kakashekh
Perceived Impact of Social Media on Panic Buying: An Online Cross-Sectional Survey in Iraqi Kurdistan
Frontiers in public health
abstract recent research shows extended contact via story reading powerful strategy improve outgroup attitudes conducted three studies test whether extended contact reading popular bestselling books h arry p otter improves attitudes toward stigmatized groups immigrants homosexuals refugees results one experimental intervention elementary school children two crosssectional studies high school university students taly u nited k ingdom supported main hypothesis identification main character ie h arry p otter disidentification negative character ie v oldemort moderated effect perspective taking emerged process allowing attitude improvement theoretical practical implications findings discussed context extended intergroup contact social cognitive theory