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It is seen that the COVID-19 pandemic, which has seriously changed living practices all over the world, significantly affects the relationships between groups. The main objectives of the present study are to examine the reflections of the COVID-19 pandemic on discriminatory attitudes and behaviors between groups and to offer solutions through the intergroup contact framework for what can be done to reduce prejudices directed to outgroups during pandemic. Intergroup Contact Theory, in which it is claimed that the contact experiences between groups reduce negative attitudes and behaviors towards the outgroups through various psychological mechanisms, is one of the most important approaches developed in the social psychology literature to reduce prejudices. In the COVID-19 pandemic, whose spread rate increases through social interactions, it is seen that face-to-face interactions with others decrease significantly. Within the scope of this article, an answer to the question of how intergroup interactions can be preserved during the pandemic was sought and various suggestions were presented regarding what can be done to increase intergroup contact during COVID-19, based on the expended, imagined and vicarious contact approaches defined as indirect contact theories and the online contact approach.

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