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Comments on Crisp and Turner’s (May–June 2009) research on “imagined intergroup contact” (p. 231). Its goals of reducing prejudice are laudable, especially with a motivation to “prepare people to engage outgroups with an open mind” (p. 231). The method is relatively simple, easy, and inexpensive to use. Consequently, it has a great deal of flexibility and can be fairly easily implemented almost anywhere. It also reflects the widespread tendency of mainstream social psychology to focus almost entirely on individualistic intrapsychic phenomena. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)