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Empathy and attitudes: Can feeling for a member of a stigmatized group improve feelings toward the group?
Abstract
Results of 3 experiments suggest that feeling empathy for a member of a stigmatized group can improve attitudes toward the group as a whole. In Experiments 1 and 2, inducing empathy for a young woman with AIDS (Experiment 1) or a homeless man (Experiment 2) led to more positive attitudes toward people with AIDS or toward the homeless, respectively. Experiment 3 tested possible limits of the empathy-attitude effect by inducing empathy toward a member of a highly stigmatized group, convicted murderers, and measuring attitudes toward this group immediately and then 1-2 weeks later. Results provided only weak evidence of improved attitudes toward murderers immediately but strong evidence of improved attitudes 1-2 weeks later.
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“Controlled laboratory studies instructing subjects to adopt a perspective associated with another person and his or her situation have been shown to reduce bias toward a range of stigmatized groups,81 including Blacks,82,83 and to inhibit the activation of unconscious stereotypes and prejudices.84”
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- Authors
- Batson, C. D., Polycarpou, M. P., Harmon-Jones, E., Imhoff, H. J., Mitchener, E. C., Bednar, L. L., Klein, T. R., & Highberger, L.
- ORCID
- Batson, C. Daniel
- Venue
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
- Published
- 1997-01
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 105-118
- ISSN
- 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1315
- OpenAlex
- W4230083885
- Cited by
- 1,463
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 69 · 2025: 54 · 2024: 72 · 2023: 106 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 97 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 92 · 2018: 91 · 2017: 74 · 2016: 71 · 2015: 78 · 2014: 69 · 2013: 77 · 2012: 51
- FWCI
- 28.40
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Sciences › Education › Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Keywords
- empathy, prejudice reduction, intergroup attitudes, empathy induction
- MeSH terms
- Analysis of Variance, Attitude, Empathy, Female, HIV Seropositivity, Ill-Housed Persons, Humans, Male, Minority Groups, Persuasive Communication, Prejudice, Prisoners, Psychological Theory, Social Responsibility, Time Factors
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