The European Research Network “Intergroup Relations and Social Networks” has invited DUALNETS team members Tobias Stark and Tom Nijs to present their work at the upcoming small group meeting in Bonn, Germany.

Tom Nijs and Tobias Stark published a paper on the Effect of Contact with Dual Identifier Friends on Interethnic Attitudes in the European Journal of Social Psychology. The intergroup contact literature has traditionally examined interactions as being between clearly defined, mutually exclusive groups. Yet in Western societies, descendants of immigrants often identify both with their…

DUALNETS team members Tobias Stark, Lexin Chen, Anniek Schlette, and Angelos Dimosiaris (see picture) presented our work on perceived social networks, recognition of dual identifiers, and interethnic social networks at the European Conference on Social Network at Norrköpping, Sweden.

Together with Tibor Zingora, Tobias Stark organized a symposium called “Truly relational: Social network analysis of intergroup relations” at the 2026 conference of the European Association of Social Psychology in Strasbourg, France. DUALNETS team members Anniek Schlette (see picture) and Angelos Dimosiaris presented work on perceived networks and their effects on recognition of dual identifiers.

NOS Youth News podcast In a recent episode of the NOS Youth News podcast, hosts Annabelle Zandbergen and Pien Leerink spoke with sociologist Tom Nijs about political polarization. Nijs discusses why politicians so often clash, the impact this has on those following political debate, and how cooperation remains possible despite disagreement. He also shares a…

In the NPO series Hoedan, Rui (24), adopted from China, talks about the feeling that her Chinese appearance doesn’t match who she feels she is on the inside. Researcher Tom Nijs spoke in the video about identity denial, Asian racism, and possible strategies for dealing with it, showing how research insights make their way to…

This study, co-written by Tobias Stark and published by the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, examined whether adolescents’ friendships with members of a primary outgroup also lead to more positive attitudes toward other, secondary outgroups: Zingora, T., Bracegirdle, C., Stark, T. H., & Spiegler, O. (2026). Outgroup friendships and social influence in the development…

Discover our paper published by Social Networks on VINA: A new engaging and ethical interface to collect social network data: Tom Nijs, Tobias H. Stark, Zsófia Boda, Introducing VINA: An engaging and ethically responsible interface to collect social network data including cognitive social structures on smartphones, Social Networks, Volume 87, 2026, Pages 92-102, ISSN 0378-8733,…

Lexin is visiting Nynke Niersink at Carnegie Mellon University, United States of America. Together, they work on a paper comparing the predictive power of homophily preferences that are based on self-reported ethnic background and the perception of the belonging of classmates.

Lexin Chen’s 1st paper of her dissertation was published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence. She shows that dual identifiers typically do not realize their potential to form interethnic friendships. Although they are popular among both students with and without a migration background, dual identifiers prefer mainly those who also have a migration background…