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Participants Ninety undergraduate students at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Northern Cyprus, 34 men and 56 women, aged between 17 and 26 (M = 20), were randomly allocated to one of three conditions: control, versus contextually diverse imagined contact, versus contextually homogeneous imagined contact.

Procedure [...] In the control condition, participants were asked the following: [Verbal Stimulus A]. In the experimental conditions, participants received the following imagined contact task instructions derived from previous versions of the task used successfully with outgroups: [Verbal Stimulus B]. In the contextually homogeneous imagined contact condition, immediately after imagining this scenario, participants received the following instructions: [Verbal Stimulus C]. However, they then received the following: [Verbal Stimulus D]. What differed between the two experimental conditions was, therefore, the phrase at the same time and place versus at a different time and place.

Dependent measures. Two questions were used to test intentions to engage in future contact. Participants were asked the following: ‘‘Next time you find yourself in a situation where you could interact with a Greek Cypriot person ...’’ (a) ‘‘How likely is it that you would strike up a conversation?,’’ and (b) ‘‘How interested would you be in striking up a conversation?’’: Responses ranged from 1 (not at all) to 9 (very much). [...]