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António, R., Guerra, R., Cameron, L. & Moleiro, C. (2023). Imagined and extended contact experiences and adolescent bystanders’ behavioral intentions in homophobic bullying episodes. Aggressive Behavior. 49 (2), 97-177
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A. R. António et al.,  "Imagined and extended contact experiences and adolescent bystanders’ behavioral intentions in homophobic bullying episodes", in Aggressive Behavior, vol. 49, no. 2, pp. 97-177, 2023
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@article{antónio2023_1716174665881,
	author = "António, R. and Guerra, R. and Cameron, L. and Moleiro, C.",
	title = "Imagined and extended contact experiences and adolescent bystanders’ behavioral intentions in homophobic bullying episodes",
	journal = "Aggressive Behavior",
	year = "2023",
	volume = "49",
	number = "2",
	doi = "10.1002/ab.22059",
	pages = "97-177",
	url = "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ab.22059"
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Imagined and extended contact experiences and adolescent bystanders’ behavioral intentions in homophobic bullying episodes
T2  - Aggressive Behavior
VL  - 49
IS  - 2
AU  - António, R.
AU  - Guerra, R.
AU  - Cameron, L.
AU  - Moleiro, C.
PY  - 2023
SP  - 97-177
SN  - 0096-140X
DO  - 10.1002/ab.22059
UR  - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ab.22059
AB  - Bystanders’ helping interventions in bias-based bullying are rare, although they have the potential to intervene on behalf of the victim and quickly stop the aggression. Two studies tested, experimentally, the impact of adolescents' imagined (Study 1, N = 113, Mage = 16.17) and extended contact experiences (Study 2, N = 174, Mage =15.79) on assertive bystanders’ behavioral intentions in the context of homophobic bullying, an under- researched but highly detrimental behavior that emerges mainly during early adolescence (Espelage et al., 2018). Potential mediators (empathic concern, social contagion concerns, and masculinity/femininity threat) were also examined. Results showed that female younger participants revealed more behavioral intentions to help victims of homophobic bullying, when asked to imagine an interaction with an outgroup member (Study 1). Younger participants revealed less masculinity/femininity threat in the positive extended contact condition, and female participants revealed less empathic concern in the negative extended contact condition (Study 2). Overall, these findings identify specific conditions (e.g., younger female) where indirect contact interventions (i.e., extended and imagined) are likely to have a stronger impact. Age and sex differences found illustrate how adolescents vary in their behavioral intentions, empathic concern and threat; and also highlight the need to further examine age and sex differences regarding responses to homophobic bullying episodes.
ER  -