The ongoing research in ELSIR covers:

  • Immigration and cultural diversity
    • Promoting welcoming communities in small- and medium-sized centres across the province
    • Mutual perceptions and attitudes among immigrants and members of host societies
    • The discounting of immigrants' credentials and skills in the Canadian labour market, and the issue of immigrant underemployment
    • Perception of refugees and refugee policy
    • The dehumanization of immigrants and refugees
    • Perceived associations between immigrants/immigration and disease
    • Perceived value conflict with immigrants and refugees
  • Competition
    • Instrumental Model of Group Conflict
    • The role of perceived competition over tangible resources (e.g., jobs) and over cultural dominance (e.g., cultural practices of a society) in determining intergroup attitudes
  • Modern Prejudice
    • Prejudice toward overweight individuals
    • Religious prejudice
    • Prejudice toward gays and lesbians
    • Neo-sexism
  • Dehumanization
    • Measurement of dehumanization: both explicit and implicit
    • Individual and societal determinants of the dehumanization of low status groups
    • Attitudinal and behavioural consequences of dehumanization
  • Contact
    • Use of the internet to promote more positive intergroup attitudes