Professor Turner’s research focuses on intergroup contact.

Topics of investigation include identifying factors that predict cross-group friendships among school children, examining consequences of these friendships for intergroup relations, and developing and testing prejudice-reduction of interventions based on e-contact (online intergroup communication), extended contact (learning about other people’s contact experiences), and imagined contact (imagining a positive contact experience).

Professor Turner is also interested in predictors and consequences of intergroup romantic relationships, and the influence of nostalgia on intergroup relations.