Talks
INVITED TALKS
How does mass media influence our attitudes towards stigmatized groups? The effect of news content, employed language, speakers, and images. Keynote lecture at the 24th Social Processes and Personality Conference, Trest, Czech Republic, 11. September 2024.
Psychologie hate speech: oběti, pachatelé, příhlížející a intervence [The psychology of hate speech: Victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and interventions]. 15 November 2022, invited contribution as part of the conference “Hate Speech and Czech Society: Actual Risks and Possibilities of Prevention" in the Parliament of the Czech Republic. [audio record]
Snižování předsudků jako cesta k fungující společnosti [Reducing prejudice as means to functioning societies]. 3 October 2022, Celebratory Lecture by the Czech Academy of Sciences, broadcasted by the Czech TV.
Social psychology in times of war: Insights from studies on refugee acceptance and reconciliation in post-conflict societies. 17 September 2022, Polish Association of Social Psychology Conference, Gdańsk, Poland.
The role of mass communication in shaping attitudes toward social minorities. 28 July 2021, 25th International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology, virtual.
Between cultures: Intergroup exchanges researched and lived. 5 May 2021, invited lunch talk for the Institute of Psychology, University of Bern.
The effect of news about the refugee crisis on attitudes toward migrants and immigration policies. 10 April 2019, expert meeting “How mass media shape the perception of others: The refugee crisis and post-conflict societies”, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno, CZ.
How mass media shape our attitudes toward immigrants? Language, content of news, and perspective of speakers. 5 December 2019, Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Geneva, Switzerland.
The role of language in journalists’ work. 20 November 2018, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Prague as part of the H2020 project 809498 "People between the lines: Building skills for quality migration coverage".
Media shape majority’s attitudes toward immigrants: Effects of linguistic labels for ethnicity, report valence and intergroup contact. 2 February 2018, Social Psychology Lab, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Angst vor dem Fremden: Wie die Medien Einstellungen gegenüber Fremden beeinflussen [Fear of the foreign: How mass media influence attitudes toward foreigners]. 9 December 2017, Psychology Update Refresher, Forum für medizinische Fortbildung, Zurich, Switzerland.
Immigrants in the mass media: Effects of linguistic labels for ethnicity, report valence and intergroup contact through mass media. 30 November 2017, Institute of Communication and Media Studies; Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, University of Bern, Switzerland.
The effect of mass media news on majority attitudes toward stigmatized minorities. Expert meeting “Social minorities and cultural differences”, 5 April 2017, Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, CZ.
Valence asymmetries in the effect of intergroup contact on outgroup attitudes, 15 April 2015, Institute of Psychology, FernUniversität in Hagen, Germany.
Challenging prejudice: The effect of language, media exposure and intergroup contact on outgroup attitudes, 6 November 2014, Center for Research on Prejudice, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Negative intergroup contact is more influential, but positive intergroup contact is more common: An ecological assessment of contact prominence and contact prevalence in five European countries, 29 May 2014, Department of Psychology, Işık University, Turkey.
Prevalent positive and prominent negative contact with outgroup members maintain outgroup attitudes, 20 March 2013, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, Australia.
SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Graf, S., & Sczesny, S. (2019). Personal experiences with asylum seekers can disrupt the normative influence of mass-media on solidarity with asylum seekers. Conference of the Swiss Psychological Society, Bern, Switzerland.
Graf, S., & Sczesny, S. (2019). Direct but not mass-mediated intergroup contact with migrants is linked to behaviour supporting migrants through attitudes: The role of political orientation. 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Lisbon, Portugal.
Graf, S., Arlt, D., Eugster, B. & Sczesny, S. (2019). Intergroup communication about migration shapes attitudes toward migrants and immigration policies: The role of emotions and cognitions. The EASP Meeting on Intergroup Communication, Bologna, Italy.
Graf, S., & Sczesny, S. (2017). Valence of media news about immigrants and immigrants’ labels shape majority’s prejudice against immigrants. 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Granada, Spain, Book of Abstracts, p. 168.
Graf, S., Paolini, S., & Rubin, M. (2014). Ecological evidence that positive intergroup contact is more common, but negative contact is more influential. 17th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Book of Abstracts, p. 170.